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To address environmental degradation, including climate change, it is essential to take into account human rights and migration. Hybrid international law and regional thinking are both essential.
By 2050, climate change impacts such as storms and drought could displace up to 300 million people worldwide. Nations should recognize 'climate migrants' and make plans for aiding and resettling them.
New Zealand's plan to create the world’s first humanitarian visa for climate refugees has to consider ways people from Pacific Island nations actually want to be assisted.
Although climate change threatens the world's small island nations, many can find ways to adapt and preserve their homes and cultures – especially if wealthy countries cut emissions and provide support.
To many people, island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands are synonymous with climate catastrophe. But prophesies of doom aren't all that helpful.
US President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order on “energy independence”. The order rescinds key elements of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. Trump’s order lifts requirements…
Areas like the Flinders Ranges have provided refuge for flora and fauna when the climate has changed. But rapid temperature increases and human intervention may stop them doing so again.
In the Pacific region, customary laws could create problems when implementing international law associated with climate change.
Droughts can be a factor in some armed conflicts, but that's nothing new.
In the 1960s, with the phosphate boom over and Nauru's economy in ruins, Australia offered to move the entire nation to Queensland's Curtis Island. But with no sovereignty on offer, the deal collapsed.
Top contributors
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University
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Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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ARC Research Associate, University of Adelaide
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Disaster Risk Reduction, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Assistant Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
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Ian Noble is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chief Scientific Advisor, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative, University of Notre Dame
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Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
