The 2019 PAA (Population Association of America) Annual Meeting took place in Austin, between April 10 and 13th. Excellent papers discussed how climate change may affect population dynamics in the world. Among them, Alexandre Gori Maia (UNICAMP) and Stella Schons (Virginia Tech) stressed how deforestation and rising average temperature have estimulated migrants to leave the tropical Amazon region in Brazil.  

The impacts of climate change on population dynamics are not clear-cut. The impacts tend to be larger in the poorest regions, where climate change has also been more severe. The papers presented at the PAA 2019 highlighted different impacts on migration, fertility, mortality ad health.