The Debate: Can the world community deal with the new wave of environmental refugees?
Subtitle
It Is Time to Help the World's Most Vulnerable People
A Toolbox for Environmentally Displaced Persons
Climate Migrants Are Refugees — Not Commodities
Sadly, the Paris Agreement Isn’t Nearly Enough
A New World War Upon Us That U.S. Cannot Win Alone
What Do The Climate Displaced Really Need?
Author
Vanessa Haley-Benjamin - College of The Bahamas
Carl Bruch - Environmental Law Institute
François Gemenne - University of Liège
Michael B. Gerrard - Columbia Law School
W. Chris King - Retired, Army Brigadier General
Benjamin Schachter - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
College of The Bahamas
Environmental Law Institute
University of Liège
Columbia Law School
Retired, Army Brigadier General
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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HEADNOTE ❧ Europe is tense with the outflow of migrants from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, torn by civil war and drought. They are not the only persons who can be referred to as environmental refugees. Scientists expect the frequency and extent of environmental displacement to increase as the effects of climate change become more intense. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that climate change will displace up to 250 million people over the next 35 years, many permanently.

Making the Paris Agreement Work
Author
John C. Dernbach - Widener University Law School
Donald A. Brown -
Widener University Law School
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COVER STORY ❧ The challenge now is implementation. Creating a race to the top — an approach that could incentivize greater ambition — will require all elements of civil society, including environmental professionals, to reach the accord’s ambitious but eminently realizable goals.