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This policy brief aims to present strategies to promote the interaction among decision makers and policymakers, the coordination of policies related to climate change and disaster management, as well as migration policies for preparedness and provision of adequate responses to environmental migration within and to Brazil.

The publication presents the following recommendations to systemic challenges in Brazil:

• To overcome the knowledge gaps in the migration-environment nexus in relation to its translation into public policymaking:
  • Research to collect evidence and more accurate data on environmental migration due to climate change, disasters and other environmental changes and its impacts on legislation and public policies;
  • Creation of an inter-institutional dialogue to facilitate the interaction of public policies related to migration, environment and human rights.
• To fill the absence of legal norms and policies dealing with environmental migration, given that environmental migration is a reality in Brazil and will likely increase due to environmental changes:
  • Inclusion of protection for environmental migrants in migration laws and policies, either to protect nationals affected by internal events or admit into Brazil populations, communities and persons affected in other countries;
  • Regulation of the protection and assistance procedures for environmental migrants at the national, State and local levels.

Environment Migration Portal, Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series, Issue 5, Vol. 2, May 2016. This document is part of the "Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series" of the International Organization for Migration.