[Narrator] These numbers are projections at this stage,
but could become a reality
without concrete climate and development action.
The report finds that if managed carefully,
migration from vulnerable areas to more viable locations
can bring new opportunities
for people like Wolde and Monoara.
We are already seeing individual success stories.
23-year-old Monoara escaped
her flood stricken community
in the Kurigram District, in Bangladesh.
She moved to the capital, Dhaka,
to join a program that provides
young rural women with life skills.
Now, she's trained as a professional seamstress.
She has a job offer in Dhaka
that she plans to accept after graduation.
Wolde also plans to turn adversity
into a chance to change the course of his life.
The eighth of 16 children, he left his father's small farm
in a drought stricken part of Ethiopia,
and walked for days to the small city of Hawassa.
Wolde is now enrolled in Ethiopia's
extensive Urban Safety Net program.
He receives a small salary for supervising street cleaners.
Wolde wants to study marketing
at this polytechnic university,
where he can attend classes for up to three years
without paying tuition.
Some communities are finding ways
to deal with climate change that don't require migration.
Javier and his brother chose to stay
in their community in Oaxaca
and expand their carpentry business.
A sustainable forestry program has helped attract investors,
enabling the community to adapt to a change in climate
and build economic opportunities.
Monoara and Wolde, and Javier's stories
tell us that while internal climate migration
is a growing reality in many countries,
it doesn't have to be a crisis.