International Law and the Victims of Climate Change
Washington, DC – The American Security Project today released a report discussing the need to assist individuals impacted and displaced by climate change (IIDCCs). Authored by ASP Adjunct Policy Analyst Justin S. Rubin, the report details a four-part legal framework that must be enacted to provide support to IIDCC’s: a binding agreement between developed nations; a commitment by those nations to evacuate and resettle climate change victims; an adjudication method for deciding who needs to be relocated and to where individuals should be relocated; and retraining for resettled IIDCCs. Mr. Rubin states that if we do not assist climate change’s victims, we will face greater global instability and insecurity as well as likely be blamed for climate change’s effects.
Read the full report here.
