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Global Governance 16 (2010), 397–414 Climate Change, Migration, and Governance Susan Martin There is growing recognition that the effects of climate change are likely to lead to more migration, both internally and internationally, in the relatively near future. These climate change–induced migrations are likely to pose new challenges to the international system, ranging from an increase in ir- regular migration, to strains on existing asylum systems, to protection gaps for certain migrants affected. Yet the legal and normative framework, and institutional roles and responsibilities, relating to climate change–induced migration remain poorly developed. This article provides an overview of the interactions between climate change and migration, outlines the current in- ternational response, and considers new approaches to the global gover- nance framework. KEYWORDS: climate change, migration, asylum. AS EARLY AS 1990, THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) warned that significant levels of migration could occur as a result of changing climatic conditions. The concept of environmental migration proved to be a controversial one, largely because of the difficulty in measuring the ex- tent to which environmental factors compel people to move. Since the 1980s, when the term environmental refugees was coined, experts within the environ- mental and migration fields
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations – Brill
Published: Dec 19, 2010
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