Abstract
This chapter investigates the future of forced climate migrants’ law, whose embryos are already in place: the progress made under the UNFCCC, the adoption of the Refugees and Migration Compacts, as well as the success of dedicated intergovernmental initiatives in the last years go in this direction. From 2010 and COP16, the UNFCCC started explicitly addressing climate-related migration, and in 2018 COP24 endorsed the UNFCCC’s Task Force on Displacement recommendations. In the same period, the UNGA passed the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration. Whereas the first adopts a soft approach toward climate-related refugee movements, the second comprehensively includes climate change as a driver of human migration. Altogether, these instruments represent the “embryo” of what might become in the future a dedicated legal system for forced climate migrants. This chapter examines these trends addressing how they may fit in a systemic evolution of international law to provide responses to the problem of climate-related migration.
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