Emerging Global Consensus on Climate Change and Human Mobility

<p>This book examines whether a global consensus is emerging on climate change and human mobility and presents evidence of a slow-moving but dynamic step-by-step process of international policy development on climate-related mobility.</p><p>Naser reviews the range of solutions offered to address climate-related mobility problems such as extending the 1951 UN Refugee Convention adopting an additional protocol to the UNFCCC or creating a new international treaty to support those facing climate-related migration and displacement problems. He examines the accumulating stock of international policies and initiatives relevant to climate-related mobility using a framework of six policy areas: human rights refugees climate change disaster risk reduction migrationand sustainable development. He uses this framework to define and summarise the main UN actions and milestones on climate-related mobility. Despite the difficult context affecting the global community of worsening climate change impacts and human rights under threat Naser asserts that the foundations of global consensus on climate-related mobility have been built particularly in the last decade.</p><p>This book will be of great relevance to students scholars and policy-makers with an interest in the increasing interface between climate change and human mobility policy issues.</p>