Protection of Persons Displaced Across Borders in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change: A Review of Literature, Legislation and Case Law to Support the Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees

A review of State practice to provide international protection based on international and regional refugee and human rights law or to provide admission and stay based on migration law to persons displaced across borders in the context of disasters and adverse effects of climate change demonstrating growing consensus on the need to protect such persons through national and regional applications of these three areas of law, but indicating that the use of these tools is limited, often random, hard to predict, and neither harmonized nor well-coordinated.