{"id":307,"date":"2020-08-11T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=307"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:17","slug":"a-framework-for-the-future-of-climate-refugees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-34-number-3-spring-2020\/a-framework-for-the-future-of-climate-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"A Framework for the Future of Climate Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>As global temperatures rise due to climate change, nations around the\u00a0world are seeing an increase in refugees. Resources are becoming more\u00a0scarce, and ocean levels are rising, causing people to flee their homes, especially those from small island nations. It is forecasted that 143 million people will be displaced by climate change by 2050. Many people leaving their\u00a0homes seek asylum in other countries, but are having difficulty as there are\u00a0no internationally agreed-upon standards for climate refugees. However, the\u00a0Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has begun its review of the\u00a0matter by hearing a climate refugee case and has outlined factors for countries to consider when reviewing a person\u2019s asylum application as a climate\u00a0refugee. These include resource scarcity, violence due to resource scarcity\u00a0that the applicant has experienced, and time left of habitability in the applicant&#8217;s country of origin. This piece analyses the Committee&#8217;s communication No. 2728\/2016, which indicated what factors a climate refugee applicant might use to make her claim for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/08\/A-Framework-for-the-Future-of-Climate-Refugees.pdf\">A Framework for the Future of Climate Refugees<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As global temperatures rise due to climate change, nations around the\u00a0world are seeing an increase in refugees. Resources are becoming more\u00a0scarce, and ocean levels are rising, causing people to flee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"parent":442,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions\/309"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}