Franciscans InternationalLegal Paper on Climate Change Induced Migration
It is estimated that up to 200 million people will be displaced because of climate change by 2050. Read our analysis of different possibilities of legal protection for climate change induced displacement, forced migration, and statelessness.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that climate change will cause large-scale human displacement. While precise figures are disputed, it is estimated that up to 200 million people will be affected by 2050.
The threat to small island states, such as the Republic of Kiribati, is quite concerning, considering that their territory’s literal disappearance is inevitable. The complete loss of a territory and its population is unprecedented and the eventual displacement of the people of Kiribati (the I-Kiribati) raise worrying uncertainty.
This paper prepared by FI and law students at the Australian National University is an analysis of different possibilities of legal protection of climate change induced displacement, forced migration and statelessness.