…Globally, climate change already is driving large-scale human displacement within and across borders, and projections suggest that by 2050 there may be 1.2 billion climate migrants.1 How the world responds will be a defining issue of this century. After long experience with the devastating impact of corporate driven climate, migration and labor policies, unions are calling for a new, coherent approach that centers on the rights and needs of workers and their families.

This report outlines solutions at the intersection of climate, migration and labor policy that will help mitigate potentially dire human consequences of escalating climate driven displacement. Unions amplify our call for policies that expand access to good clean energy jobs, enable more people to stay in their home countries, protect the lives and rights of people who are forced to move across borders, and prevent employers from pitting workers against one another to drive down standards for all…