Climate Migrants in Legal Limbo

The Global Governance Forum has published a paper by Carly Kabot, "No Status, No Safety: Climate Migrants in Legal Limbo", that highlights the significant gap in international law concerning those forced to migrate because they are displaced by climate change. Such people do not legally qualify as refugees because there is little or no chance that they could go back home, for example if their island or country is drowned by sea level rise. Many are displaced internally, with significant impacts on receiving communities, but as hundreds of millions are potentially affected, this problem of forced migration cannot be ignored.

The paper can be consulted at No Status, No Safety: Climate Migrants in Legal Limbo

SOURCE: https://globalgovernanceforum.org/legal-status-climate-migrants-gap-in-…