The impact of climate change and environmental degradation may result in large groups of people being forced to be displaced within their countries or abroad to avoid physical harm, health problems or, ultimately, loss of life. The work outlines the recent trends of how international law guarantees the protection of environmental migrants by stressing the role of human rights law as a suitable form of complementary protection applicable to environmental migration. By moving towards judicial protection, the analysis places environmental migration within the «climate change litigation» phenomenon as a starting point for an evaluation of the decision taken by the UN Committee on Human Rights in the Teitiota v. New Zealand case as well as of the recent caselaw of some European domestic courts that have recognised for their part the need to broaden the forms of national protection in favour of environmental migrants.

Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico e del degrado ambientale possono comportare per taluni individui la necessità di migrare dando così concretezza al fenomeno della cd. migrazione ambientale. Il lavoro intende delineare le recenti tendenze del diritto internazionale per garantire la protezione ai migranti ambientali, sottolineando il ruolo del diritto dei diritti umani come forma adeguata di protezione complementare applicabile alla migrazione ambientale. L’analisi pone poi la migrazione ambientale all’interno del «contenzioso sul cambiamento climatico» come punto di partenza per una valutazione sulla decisione adottata dal Comitato delle Nazioni Unite per i diritti umani nella causa Teitiota c. Nuova Zelanda nonché sulla recente giurisprudenza di alcuni tribunali nazionali europei che hanno riconosciuto, da parte loro, la necessità di ampliare le forme di protezione a favore dei migranti ambientali.

Reflections on human rights law as suitable instrument of complementary protection applicable to environmental migration / Susanna Villani. - In: DIRITTO, IMMIGRAZIONE E CITTADINANZA. - ISSN 1972-4799. - ELETTRONICO. - 3:(2021), pp. 2-27.

Reflections on human rights law as suitable instrument of complementary protection applicable to environmental migration

Susanna Villani
2021

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The impact of climate change and environmental degradation may result in large groups of people being forced to be displaced within their countries or abroad to avoid physical harm, health problems or, ultimately, loss of life. The work outlines the recent trends of how international law guarantees the protection of environmental migrants by stressing the role of human rights law as a suitable form of complementary protection applicable to environmental migration. By moving towards judicial protection, the analysis places environmental migration within the «climate change litigation» phenomenon as a starting point for an evaluation of the decision taken by the UN Committee on Human Rights in the Teitiota v. New Zealand case as well as of the recent caselaw of some European domestic courts that have recognised for their part the need to broaden the forms of national protection in favour of environmental migrants.
2021
Reflections on human rights law as suitable instrument of complementary protection applicable to environmental migration / Susanna Villani. - In: DIRITTO, IMMIGRAZIONE E CITTADINANZA. - ISSN 1972-4799. - ELETTRONICO. - 3:(2021), pp. 2-27.
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