COP21: UNHCR calls for more focus on climate-related migration

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has said climate-related migration must be prioritised in a climate deal currently being negotiated at the Paris climate summit. Projections by leading climate scientists of rising sea levels, heatwaves, floods and droughts linked to global warming, are likely to oblige millions of people to move out of harm's way, with some never able to return. UNHCR climate change officer Marine Franck told a news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations-sponso