A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended.
From June 2023 until June 2024, air and ocean surface water temperatures averaged a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than records set only a few years previously. Air temperatures in July 2024 were slightly cooler than the previous July (0.04°C, the narrowest of margins) according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Zimbabwe and Namibia have announced plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries.
Zimbabwe said on Monday it would allow the killing of 200 elephants so that their meat can be distributed among needy communities, while in Namibia the killing of more than 700 wild animals – including 83 elephants – is under way as part of a plan announced three weeks ago.

Fortifying houses, elevating homes, reclaiming land from rising seas, all in the effort to save Tuvalu, and above all, to stay on this Pacific Island State. This is what many Tuvaluans – activists, government officials, and citizens – prioritize despite climate risk media and donor narratives which suggest people have no option but to move to safer ground.
The relationship between climate change and human mobility cannot be reduced to a scenario of displacement and mass migration flows. The reality of climate immobility/mobility in Tuvalu and across the Global South is plural, and, above all, political, characterized by a drive to determine one’s climate im/mobility future, while at the same time often facing obstructions to do so.
Despite the plurality of ways in which the climate-mobility nexus manifests itself, the subject remains haunted by a stereotypical understanding of the climate migrant; often assumed to be a migrant that originates in the Global South and aims to move to the Global North.