Akhilesh Anilkumar

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Akhilesh Anilkumar is a UN India Youth Climate Leader and the Director and co-founder of Bring Back Green Foundation, which works on diverse problems related to climate change. He is also a Youth Advisor for World Ocean Day.

Akhilesh Anilkumar

Nov 07 2022

Will World Leaders Overlook ‘Climate Refugees’ at COP 27?

Illuminem Voices

Climate Change · Environmental Sustainability

The world is underprepared and critically unaware of an emerging crisis that will have an impact of global proportions: Climate Refugees. Climate-induced displacement was not an agenda item last COP. The gravity of the climate refugee crisis is constantly overlooked. Climate refugees are rendered homeless and stateless by forces beyond human control.