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Climate change is not a distant environmental threat, but an everyday reality that has created an expanding group of displaced peoples (and increased the number of poor people displaced from their homes as a result of climate change, because many of them travelled in search of work), people who have lost their reason for living, are legally invisible, and are increasingly coming into contact with inequality's greatest impact. Because of that, our current global and national policy frameworks regarding drought, migration and violence remain piecemeal and reactive. This chapter proposes an integrated, rights-based approach to address climate change, human rights, equitable access to land and resources, as well as spatial justice for all residents and workers in cities. By reframing migration due to climate change and inequity has created a growing sense of urgency to shift to a proactive, inclusive, resilient form of development in an increasingly warming world, these frameworks must be developed and adopted and substantial funding must be provided to support them.