International law doesn’t protect people fleeing environmental disaster – here’s how it could

By Morgiane Noel, PhD Candidate in Law, Trinity College Dublin

Researchers have tried for decades to find a relevant legal status for people forced to flee their homes as a result of floods, droughts and storms – calamities which climate change promises to make more severe and commonplace – as well as appropriate laws which might ensure their protection. But climate migrants are sometimes forgotten among the various flows of people seeking asylum.

To protect climate migrants who were forced to leave their country, some legal scholars…

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