The proposal of a new legal instrument to confront the issue of climate change refugees, define them as people whom climate change forces to relocate across national borders. The proposed instrument create obligations to deal with both prevention and remediation of the climate change refugee problem, as it establish guarantees of human rights protections and humanitarian aid for a specific class of people. An independent convention also allows for the instrument to be creatively tailored to the complexity of the problem and to take a broad-based and integrated approach. The study analyzes the limits of the refugee and climate change frameworks and the value of developing a convention that is separate from various legal regimes. The focus was also given to the designing and negotiating the proposed treaty apart from existing legal regimes offers the greatest potential for focusing the international community on the need to alleviate the climate change refugee situation.

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conference proceeding legislation refugee integrated approach Climate change human rights humanitarian aid