From Convention To Crisis: Reconstituting International Climate Refugee Protection
- IJLLR Journal
- Nov 21
- 1 min read
Janaan Naseeb Mulamparambil & Adiba Khan, Aligarh Muslim University, Faculty of Law, Aligarh
ABSTRACT
Being Uprooted from soil that nourished one’s childhood, the land that instilled nationalism in blood and the place that was called home to be thrown away to somewhere on earth and left with no hope other than mere existence, fleeing just to breath fresh air is the plight of a climate refugee, a life no one would opt for. The latest reports of Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre suggests that a total of 83.4 million refugees in which 45.8 million new disaster displacements were traced in 2024. Plethora of events laid the foundation for the legal system to look up the matter yet it has not realized that hour to formulate effective climate actions have already been reached. The essence and spirit of this paper underscore the relevance of reconstituting the international laws with regard to climate refugees’ protection. The Refugee Convention of 1951 did not pay any heed in the matter of climate refugees. The gravity of matter escalated to the extent that it is estimated 216 million climate refugees could be traced just across six nations by 2050 according to World Bank Grounds Report 2021. With the future looking so bleak the hour has already come for law enforcement agencies to take the matter with its significance and to act accordingly. The question raised in this juncture is how many more people need to leave their homes on the climate displacement grounds before the existing gaps are filled with fresh hopes for a better future.
