By Bonnie Docherty, Tyler Giannini
This Article proposes a new legal instrument to confront the issue of climate change refugees. It defines climate change refugees as people whom climate change forces to relocate across national borders. The existing international legal framework — including its laws and its institutions — does not adequately address the emerging crisis. The proposed instrument should create obligations to deal with both prevention and remediation of the climate change refugee problem.
Read the report Confronting a Rising Tide in Columbia Law School's Scholarship Archive.