Many of today's displacement crises are driven by a complex mix of climate and environmental change, disasters, conflict and fragility. These compounding risks and the interactions between them have garnered increasing attention over the past decade. While nuanced debates exist in academia around whether, and how, these may trigger and drive each other, media and policy attention has often taken a more alarmist tone. This has contributed to the popular narrative that climate change will lead to mass-scale displacement, which in turn will lead to increased conflict. In reality, however, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to disentangle conflict and climate as drivers of displacement. While the causal linkages between conflict, climate and displacement are real, they are not inevitable, and are often bound
up in wider pressures and politics.