Abstract
The First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned about the impacts of change on forced human migration. Experts and intergovernmental agencies unanimously confirm about the future flood of climate-displaced persons and their number is likely to surpass all known refugee crises. International political and normative responses to climate-induced involuntary displacement, particularly the climate refugees, and their relocation, protection remain ambivalent at best and dismissive at worst. The marginalised plight of climate refugees solicits a humane approach to their vulnerability and quest for survival, bringing human rights perspective as an integral part of this protection. This chapter examines the existing international protection paradigms of (a) refugee under the 1951 Refugee Convention, 1967 Protocol on the Status of Refugees, and Office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and (b) human rights with a view to seeking legal status and protection for climate refugees. Keywords:1951 Refugee Convention; refugees; human rights; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); international refugee law; UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
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