Climate-Induced Displacement and Climate Disaster Law: Barriers and Opportunities

Abstract

This chapter considers climate-induced migration and displacement following climate disasters. It focuses on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; relocation and resettlement in the event of displacement; and financing, compensation and risk transfer. It also highlights three major new initiatives which are likely to better protect the rights of climate displaced persons including: the new synergies between the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, and the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals; the 2016 Task Force on Displacement under Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage; and the proposed 2018 UN Global compact for safe and orderly and regular migration.

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Keywords: climate displaced persons, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, relocation and resettlement, compensation, Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework, Sustainable Development Goals, Task Force on Displacement, UN Global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration

JEL Classification: K10, K30, K32