Climate Change-Related Displacement and the Determination of Refugee Status under the 1951 Refugee Convention

Climate change and climate-driven migration are two of the defining challenges twenty-first century, there is no legal framework for protecting those displaced across national borders climate-related reasons. The 1951 Refugee Convention hardly applies to human mobility in context climate change. This paper was written hopes initiating a discussion concerning an alternative perspective through which persons fleeing natural disasters linked may satisfy eligibility conditions recognition refugee status. Expanding definition as defined by including notion vulnerability that caused underlying socio-economic claimant’s home country role discrimination causing differential exposure definitions might open door availability status proposes adoption reformed rights-based interpretation, particularly with regard individual nature determination. Recalibrating facilitate climate-induced could reduce political tension social unrest receiving countries.