The planet’s first legal think tank dedicated to climate migrants.
Earth Refuge was launched in December 2020 by two law graduates who were in disbelief at the lack of legal protections available to those made to flee climate stressors. It has now grown into a community that focuses on providing context to the issue, as well as an array of initiatives aimed at creating holistic legal solutions.
Legal Solutions
Through adopting a legal approach to solving climate-induced migration, Earth Refuge goes beyond awareness and advocacy by providing resources to empower those in need.
Our legal initiatives are 3-pronged – Research, Advocacy and Education – and our approach to fulfilling them is thorough, which means that they will take time.
Legal Database
Since March 2021, our global team of legal researchers have skilfully researched, selected, and analysed a collection of legal decisions ranging a number of topics, jurisdictions, precedents, or persuasive authorities.
Each one has been chosen because it has the potential to be seen through a climate migration ‘lens’.
Our Community
Though our aim is to provide legal solutions to climate migration, the law does not operate in a vacuum, so providing context through insight into surrounding issues and perspectives is essential to this task.
We want to dispel the myth of lawyers as the gatekeepers of justice, and to bring this gargantuan issue into normal discourse.
