Moving Beyond Borders: A Rights-Based Approach to Addressing Climate Change Induced Displacement
The below report will propose a rights-based approach for addressing the legal protection gap, which takes as its point of departure the understanding that there is no way to address…
Submission to the Canadian Senate
Alongside Dr. Camila Bustos, Assistant Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and Monica Iyer, Clinical Fellow and Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University…
Climate-related Migration in the IPCC Synthesis Report
4 April 2023 – by Lauren Grant and Gaia Hasse “An atlas of human suffering,” a “damning indictment of failed climate leadership” and a “survival guide for humanity” – these…
Five things I Learned From the International School of Climate Migration
11 October 2022 – by Alison Elizabeth Lee I was very excited when the email arrived in my inbox last May informing me that I had been accepted to the…
A Case for Prioritizing Empathy in Climate Change Policy
24 July 2022 – Sara Sam-Njogu Over the past few decades, it appears that meaningful international action towards mitigating climate change has been hard to come by. Even less ground…
Climate Change and Flooded Cities: A Tale of Human Ingenuity
30 May 2022 – In his thesis, Brendan McCarthy explores how global coastal cities can be redesigned to mitigate environmental damage from storms, rising sea levels, and flooding.
Investing Bilateral and Regional Agreements to Accommodate Climate-induced Migration
28 May 2022 – by Rachel Steinig In my thesis I investigated the role of existing bilateral and regional agreements to provide protection and asylum for climate refugees. My research…
Can the International Criminal Court Prosecute Ecocide?
27 May 2022 – by Mary Rizk On 22 June 2021, an international expert drafting panel commissioned by the Stop Ecocide Foundation shared its proposal for a fifth crime under…
As COP26 Negotiations Came to an End, the Inadequacies of the Glasgow Climate Pact Were Clear
8 December 2021 – Evelyn Workman assesses the realities of the Glasgow Climate Pact adopted at the COP26 summit, and in particular, the impact of the watered-down commitment to the…
Loss and Damage Finance is Not About Charity
8 December 2021 – Ole Ter Wey contemplates the history of loss and damage in a climate finance context, and reflects upon the ways in which – or lack thereof…
The UN Climate Change Conference Neglected a Vital Consequence of Climate Change: Migration
8 December 2021 – COP26, the 26th Annual UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, is being held in the UK as we speak. And whilst there are lots of…
Could Climate Change Cause the Next Great War?
15 November 2021 – Could conflict over natural resources due to climate change cause the next great war? Nikunj Bhimsaria outlines the research that suggests that this is a real…
Women, Girls, and the Impact of Climate Change on Sex Trafficking
15 November 2021 – A causal relationship exists between climate change and sex trafficking of women. Rebecca Allen delves into the research highlighting this phenomenon and outlines recent migration and…
Could Climate Change Be a Ground for Invoking the Use of Force?
8 November 2021 – We know that the effects of climate change, such as droughts and loss of infrastructure through natural disasters, are all risk factors for armed violence and…
The IPCC Report: Human-Driven Climate Change is ‘Code Red’ for Life on Earth
14 October 2021 – Crystal-Lee Harilall gives a timely break-down of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report detailing the “physical science of climate change”. The report is especially relevant in light…
The Gendered Impact of the Climate Crisis
23 September 2021 – by Shambhavi Kant The improvement of women and girls’ adaptive capacities to climate change is of paramount importance. In this piece, Shambhavi Kant explores the gendered…
The Effect of 5G Networks on the Right to a Healthy Environment
16 August 2021 – by Nabil Iqbal Telecommunication is linked to enormous global electricity consumption, global carbon emissions, and large amounts of E-waste. The Fifth Generation (5G) networking system poses…
Cryptocurrencies: Not So ‘Green’?
30 June 2021 – Raj Shekhar We are living through a global cryptocurrency revolution, but do we know just how much energy these crypto coins consume? This article analyses the…
Understanding the Vicious Circle: Climate Change, Environmental Destruction and Contemporary Slavery
27 May 2021 – by Chris O’Connell Research conducted by Earth Refuge Advisor Dr Chris O’Connell in Bolivia and Peru, and published by Anti-Slavery International, indicates that climate change is…
Towards Corporate Accountability for Environmental Harms on an International Basis
11 May 2021 – by Vaughn Rajah The global scale at which modern multinational corporations (MNCs) operate inevitability results in widespread environmental harm. This article contends that international law must…
