ABSTRACT
In the global debate on climate change, many voices deliberate on and hammer out agreements on emission targets, adaptation programmes and financing as well as carbon trade scenarios. Recent discussions have increasingly raised awareness of issues of ‘climate justice’ (GenderCC 2010) and there is now greater propensity to evaluate the uneven conditions of social systems that exacerbate the vulnerability and inhibit adaptive responses of women and the poor. The discourse on climate justice is being played out concurrently with separate discourses on the security risks and other implications of climate-induced population migration. Two disparate sets of anxious actors have taken up these discourses: civil society and feminist groups concerned with the paucity of climate justice consciousness in climate change agendas on one hand; and international security institutions worried by threats of climate-induced migrations on the other. This indicates that the themes of migration, gender and adaptation have become more crucial today as more and more planners and scholars are collectively convinced of the need to ensure human security in the face of threats and dislocations caused by climate change, and the need to bring these potential threats to the negotiating table.
