Environmental migrants: UN meeting aims to build consensus on definitions, support, protection / EurekAlert, 8 October 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/unu-emu100608.php
"A growing international consensus to formally recognize and protect people uprooted by environmental problems is expected to accelerate at a major conference in Bonn, Germany Oct. 9 to 11. Featured at the conference will be the presentation and discussion of early results of the first comprehensive empirical study, funded by the European Commission, gauging the extent to which environment problems influence migration decisions."