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Climate change now displaces more people than war, and India should be worried

Climate change now displaces more people than war, and India should be worried

A grim prophecy made years ago by climate scientists and experts is coming true now. According to the World Migration Report (2020), at the end of 2018, there were a total of 28 million new internal displacements across 148 countries and territories. The latest World Migration Report was published at the end of 2019 and is released biennially by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), a United Nations body that keeps track of global human migration.