ABSTRACT
As climate change has become a defining feature of world politics in the 21st century, international deliberations have begun to focus on adaptation: finding ways to increase resilience and decrease vulnerability to the changing climate. Corruption is a factor that could worsen climate change impacts and negatively affect the effectiveness of adaptation strategies. The adverse effects of corruption on development have long been acknowledged: corruption increases stresses on a whole range of socio-economic challenges, exacerbating political instability, weakening governance capacity, political effectiveness and law enforcement and diverting financial resources. 2 As corruption has not been extensively examined in relation to climate change, this section contributes to the analysis of the corruption risks in adaptation strategies by looking at the case of climate migration – an important illustration, as it is likely to become an inevitable adaptation strategy for many when other forms of adaptation fail. 3
