 RISAMA is the South America Network for Environmental Migrations. It is a regional independent network of experts, researchers and practitioners in the field of environmental migration that aims to disseminate information on the topic included in the public agendas around South America in order to promote the recognition and legal protection of environmental migrants. So we know that displacement connected to environmental factors and climate change is already a reality in South America including the intensification of floods, droughts, landslides, among many other events and they are bound to become more frequent according to many recent studies and reports. So in normative terms we can mention the Brazilian National Adaptation Plan where migration has been acknowledged as an adaptation strategy but there are only two legislations in South America that specifically mention migration related to climate change which are the migration law in Bolivia which has the concept of climate migrants and the climate change law in Peru that applies the concept of environmental migrants. There is a lack of detailed research and reliable data especially connecting information on hazard events and disasters with population movement. We also notice a lack of long-term follow-up of displacement situations particularly the ones related to climate change. And because reliable data is an essential tool for policymaking RISAMA is currently designing the project of an observatory on environmental migration throughout the Latin America to organize the existing information developing methods and stimulating consistent data collection in the region in order to fill out the existing gaps.