researchers from the international organization for migration have come to the region surrounding lake chad to investigate the connection between climate change and the rise of climate migration. mashal remove below of the un migration organisation has spent years in the us the hill region every encounter and every conversation adds another layer of detail to his preliminary findings. today the real and his team are visiting a camp for displaced people near lake chad. under the shadow of a nearly barren tree he speaks with mohammad abraham the head of the family. game tells no real oh he is a herder the family suffered a terrible ordeal before finally arriving in lake chad it was heat and lack of water that drove them from their home. in the. climate change has a huge impact on us herders if there's no rain no plants grow and without green plants to eat our animals die so we heard or seen are hit very hard by this. occupy from the chart the chaps. becoming onside and the genocide they all depended on this source you can tell us that this lake is unique it's just a freshwater we feel. s

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well on a dollar as head of communications at the international organization for migration and joins us live from geneva thanks so much for speaking with us here on al-jazeera media attention around the seams of waynes but as we've seen in victoria's report this problem is not going away which you say is getting worse well certainly it's the case for greece for sure the numbers of arrivals is up dramatically on last year i will say that the numbers of those who are dying on route is is remains relatively small about 61 this year so far of the tragedy weekend but there is a very big problem of overcrowding. in in lesbos in some us and us and this problem is because an overwhelming number of the migrants and refugees driving are being placed here rather than being distributed more equitably if you wish around other european countries although there are steps in the right direction happening there following a meeting in malta last week but well there are steps in the right direction but we do keep hearing the other countries simply don't want them western governments are blaming people t

>> recently, the international organization for migration has projected that between 25 million and 1.5eave their homes by 2050 due to climate change. people from the poorest and smallest nations will likely be forced to migrate first. as the united states is leading the world in carbon emissions, what role do you believe the united states must play in regards to these inevitable climate migrants? >> great question. >> that is a great question. >> minority and low-income neighborhoods and communities in transition are disproportionately targeted by industries that follow the path of least resistance when deciding where to locate hazardous waste sites and other polluting facilities. how will you regulate these corporate actions in order to fight environmental, racial and socioeconomic injustice? >> what measures would you take not only to reduce co2 emissions, but day-to-day, outdoor and indoor workers from these heat illnesses? >> we are back here an georgetown university. i'm joined bay bunch of students. we had a forum this morning. we had a whole bunch of candidates talking. we got t

the international organization for migration projects between 25 million and 1.5 billion people willof water, as you said lack of land you can farm on, starvation. you're talking about 3 million in guatemala. we're talking about billions of people on the move. >> it gives us chills. a billion and a half people in this world on the move because of climate change. what i want to say, it is happening right now. it is a desperate, desperate situation and i saw it with my own eyes. why isn't the trump administration doing anything about this? is it because they are doing anything with climate change? what they're doing instead is doing increased law enforcement response. they decided to send cbp down to guatemala. they wanted to beef up the militarization on the southwest border. build the wall, put people through punitive punishments, remain in mexico, no asylum on the border. we said this time and again, they are exacerbating the immigration policies they are putting in place. they are ignoring the reality of the climate science and the data that their own administration is putting in f