24 April 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Climate Change, the Displacement of Puerto Ricans and the Problem of Representation (RID Blog, April 2024) [text

"Colombian Court Recognizes Environmental Refugees," AFP, 23 April 2024 [text]
- Note: The text of the ruling is available below.

Escaping Extremes: Climate Change's Role in Displacement and Migration (Human Rights First Blog, April 2024) [text]

In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration? (Carbon Brief, April 2024) [text]

UNHCR launches fund to shield refugees and other displaced people from climate shocks (UNHCR, April 2024) [text]

Waiting for Godot No More: The Climate Crisis and the New European Asylum Pact (Oxford Human Rights Hub, April 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Corte Constitucional de Colombia: Sentencia T-123 de 2024 (April 2024) [text via Refworld]
- "Desplazamiento forzado interno por factores ambientales, incluidos hechos asociados al cambio climático."

"Disaster Year In Review 2023," CRED Crunch Newsletter, no. 74 (April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Environmentally driven migration in EU discourse: norms, policies and realities," UCL Open Environment, vol. 6 (March 2024) [open access]

Mechanisms and sources of data on human mobility in the context of climate change, disasters and environmental degradation in South America (IOM, March 2024) [access]
- Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish. 

"The Rising Tide of Rights: Addressing Climate Loss and Damage through Rights-Based Litigation," Transnational Environmental Law, vol. 12, no. 3 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

Sea-level rise in relation to international law, UN Doc. No. A/CN.4/774 (UN General Assembly, Feb. 2024) [access]
- Available in the six UN languages. This paper supplements and further develops issues that were discussed in an earlier paper (A/CN.4/752), specifically "statehood" and "the protection of persons affected by sea-level rise."

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