All Articles: climate change

It has been a big summer for the field of climate change, migration, and international human rights. On 3 July, the Inter American Court of Human Rights released its historic advisory opinion on the legal obligations of states in light of the climate emergency, and on 23 July the International...

31st July 2025
BY Yumna Kamel

Climate change, disasters and corporate driven-environmental harms are forcing communities to move – both within countries and across borders. Displacement linked to the impacts of climate change is no longer a speculative concern – it is a legal, social, and humanitarian reality that is increasingly shaping patterns of mobility –...

2nd July 2025
BY Bella Mosselmans

Internal and cross-border climate and disaster displacement are not under-studied fields. An abundance of research spanning decades depicts a clear global map of the intersecting and multifaceted issues at play, and indeed, many solutions.  However, the legal rights of those who have or will likely move are what hangs in...

22nd October 2024
BY Yumna Kamel
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