4 minutes ago - PDF READ Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law | Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the worldThis book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law, international human rights law, and the international law on statelessness Drawing on field work undertaken in Bangladesh, India, and the Pacific island States of Kiribati and Tuvalu, it evaluates whether the phenomenon of 'climate changeinduced displacement' is an empirically sound category for academic inquiry It does so by examining the reasons whypeople move (or choose not to move)the extent to which climate change, as opposed to underlying socioeconomic factors, provides a trigger for such movementand whether traditional international responses, such as the conclusion of new treaties and the creation of new institutions,