Handling Climate Displacement

A practical and empathetic guide to managing the crisis of climate displacement, and pre-empting a mass loss of human rights.

Khaled Hassine (Author)

9781108707749, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2022

236 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.36 kg

How do we begin to handle the greatest crisis affecting humanity today? Climate change is already causing droughts, flooding, and famine that are forcing people to leave their livelihoods and communities. In the years to come, millions will find their local areas uninhabitable, as mass displacement of people reaches disastrous levels. Handling Climate Displacement explains how climate change has become recognized as a human rights concern, and how human rights are key to managing the crisis. Local authorities and populations increasingly call for guidance in the absence of an internationally recognized framework. Drafted in 2013 by a committee of experts and practitioners, Hassine uses the Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement within States to offer concrete solutions to the impending emergency. Enriched by the author's experience working with the victims of climate displacement, this book offers an effective framework to deal with the challenges presented by mass displacement while protecting human rights.

Part I. Research Framework: 1. Introduction
2. Climate displacement scenarios
Part II. Connecting the Dots: 3. Human mobility and the climate change framework
4. Climate change and human rights: the path of convergence
5. Mobilizing the United Nations human rights machinery
6. The road to Paris
7. Intermediate remarks
Part III. Protection Challenges and Policy Options: 8. Normative framework and protection challenges
9. Existing frameworks and policy options
10. Intermediate remarks
Part IV. A Framework for Handling Climate Displacement: The Peninsula Principles: 11. Introductory remarks
12. Background
13. Nature and structure of the Peninsula principles
14. Scope of application
15. General obligations under the Peninsula principles
16. Human rights imperatives
17. Prevention commanding relocation
18. Protection and assistance throughout the displacement cycle
19. Return of climate displaced persons
20. Operationalizing and applying the Peninsula principles
21. Implementation – impact and impediments
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Environment law [LNKJ], International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International environmental law [LBBP], International relations [JPS]