The 2018 World Bank report, the first one to evaluate both the rapid- and slow-onset impacts of climate change, foresees that by 2050 around 143 million people from the 'global South' will be potentially forced to migrate because of sea level rise, crop failure, and water stress. In June 2019, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, shared a prediction for the near future, where we could face a 'climate apartheid, where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer'.
chiara scissa (2019). A feeble light in the shadow: The recognized need to provide protection to environmental migrants. CONREP.
A feeble light in the shadow: The recognized need to provide protection to environmental migrants
chiara scissa
2019
Abstract
The 2018 World Bank report, the first one to evaluate both the rapid- and slow-onset impacts of climate change, foresees that by 2050 around 143 million people from the 'global South' will be potentially forced to migrate because of sea level rise, crop failure, and water stress. In June 2019, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, shared a prediction for the near future, where we could face a 'climate apartheid, where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer'.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
