Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

News:

Historic UN Human Rights Case Opens Door to Climate Change Asylum Claims (OHCHR, 21 Jan. 2020) [text]
- "In its first ruling on a complaint by an individual seeking asylum from the effects of climate change, the UN Human Rights Committee has stated that countries may not deport individuals who face climate change-induced conditions that violate the right to life." Follow link for the text of the ruling; also on Refworld. See also related assessments from Columbia Univ., Kaldor Centre and UNHCR (plus Twitter thread).

Blog posts & press:

Climate Change and Forced Migration: People are Displaced Every Second, and Often by Environmental Calamities (Public Seminar, Dec. 2019) [text]

Climate Change, Refugees, and Other Displaced Persons (Stockholm Centre Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

The Climate-Migration-Industrial Complex (Public Seminar, Jan. 2020) [text]

New Zealand's "Climate Refugee" Visas: Lessons for the Rest of the World (CGD Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

The Policy Problems of Fleeing Disaster (APPS Policy Forum, Jan. 2020) [text via Kaldor Centre]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate and Disaster Displacement: The Importance of Disaster Law and Policy (IFRC, Jan. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Climate Migration & Self-Determination," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 51, no. 1 (2019) [full-text]

Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied (UC Berkeley, Dec. 2019) [text]

The 'Inconvenient Truth' of Future Mixed Migration: Climate Change, Mobility and Legal Voids (Mixed Migration Centre, Jan. 2020) [text]

Monitoring Methodology for Displacement Associated with Drought (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Jan. 2020) [text]

"Nothing to put in your mouth": Durable Solutions to Drought Displacement in Ethiopia (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Dec. 2019) [text]

"Overcoming the Coloniality of Knowledge in International Law: The Case of Environmental Refugees," Revista Direito das Políticas Públicas = Public Policy Law, vol. 1, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

*"The Picture from Above: Using Satellite Imagery to Overcome Methodological Challenges in Studying Environmental Displacement," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 8, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

"Water Scarcity and Environmental Displacement in Southern Iraq: Perceptions and Realities," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 8, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (9 Dec. 2019)