An ecological disaster brings the irreversibility of death, as well as physical injury and destruction of property. Victims usually must flee whether they wish to or not. After a factory explosion, flooding, or a tsunami, the only choice is evacuation and the forced departure from one's home. The international society concerned with environmental law is not particularly favorable to a new treaty, as certain states maintain, with some justification, that there are too many environmental agreements and they lack coordination. However, the draft convention envisaged is not so much an environmental agreement as it is a human rights convention. The crisis of this type of displaced person is thus already present and projected to become worse in the future. As is often true in cases of disaster, the most vulnerable persons are those most exposed. Africa, which represents ten percent of the global population, has one-quarter of the environmentally displaced.

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