Planned relocations of entire communities to new sites are already happening, and are likely to happen more as the climate crisis accelerates.

Climate hazard-related planned relocations can endanger a wide range of human rights, but harms can be minimized when governments have policies in place that are rights-respecting, prioritize support for community-driven processes, and are well-resourced.

Currently there is a void in global leadership on these issues, which prevents knowledge-exchange between relocating communities (and their supporters) across contexts and prevents coordination to advance national policies that integrate global standards on rights-respecting planned relocation.

The human rights principles are well known and documented; now is the time for global action.

The Coalition on Dignified Climate Relocation is a community of practice working towards two collectively identified goals:

1) Building cross-context solidarity and learn from one another.
2) Advocating for every country with a coastline to adopt a rights-respecting relocation policy or governance framework.

The coalition builds on existing networks to convene actors working on climate-related mobility and is unique because of the global scope and focus on climate-related planned relocations of entire communities and their distinct implications for policies and funding.