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Anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to the livelihoods of large parts of the world's population. The majority of its consequences affect people and societies whose economies have so far contributed the least to climate change. The resulting dangers and the intensified global economic inequality also lead to further and new migration pressures. International human rights protection and current refugee law are not yet adapted to these forms of climate-induced migration.
The present study is the result of the FAU Human Rights Clinic 2022/23, during which students of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, in cooperation with the German Institute for Human Rights, addressed the legal framework of "climate refugees".
The study analyses the different forms of protection under current law and shows its potentials and gaps, as well as legal scope for interpretation and argumentation. Furthermore, the study presents innovative proposals and current initiatives to reform the legal framework and evaluates them from a human rights perspective.
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