Fourteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

Despite the fact that the number of individuals abandoning their homes due to the consequences of climate change has increased neither climate refugees nor environmental migrants or displaced people are considered legal persons under international law. They are not legal persons under international law because the 1951 Refugee Convention does not recognize them. However, as the negative consequences of climate change become more frequent and acute amid concerns that it may compel more people to leave their homes in the near future; the dispute has become more public among academics, human rights campaigners, and environmental organizations. What classification is appropriate for this group of persons, and what international remedies are available to help them? When disaster strikes, they are forced to abandon everything they own and relocate to other nations, where they fight for basic human rights while also researching the legal status in the country that they go to. In this paper, the researcher uses a doctrinal method to assess the existing legal safeguards for climate migrants, acknowledging that many measures have yet to be implemented but highlighting the basic human rights of ordinary people in these unavoidable situations, as well as what stand the international community can take to support this unique group of people.