Envisioning a Way Forward: Climate Displacement Legal Strategy Convening Synthesis Report

Published on 26 January 2023 This report summarises a convention held by the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) to cultivate regional expertise and build networks to support the emergence of a legal protection framework for climate displacement.

Climate change exposes the fault lines of injustice. This is especially clear when it comes to displacement. Many people forced to flee home by climate disasters are already facing other structural challenges, including inadequate access to safe housing, economic marginalization, and racial/ethnic discrimination. Climate impacts such as heavy rains, drought, and sea level rise annually displace 20 million people within their own countries. Yet those displaced experience such precarity without adequate legal protections.