What links migration to the environment?
(WorldNews Switzerland)

Since 2009, Laura Thompson (Master in International Law, `99), has served as Deputy Director General of the UN Migration Agency (IOM). On the occasion of World Environment Day 2017, she shared her thoughts on how people and nature connect through the lenses of migration. Can you explain the importance of migration to World Environment Day? People have always been moving due to environmental reasons, whether to avoid negative environmental changes or in search of better surroundings. Today, people are increasingly displaced by natural disasters, as well as migrating pre-emptively out of harm`s way. For too long, environmental factors...