How Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters.

It is vital that lawyers, government officials and judges clearly appreciate when, how and why international protection principles apply in the context of climate change and disasters. This means understanding, first, how the impacts of climate change and disasters interact with other drivers of movement to create or exacerbate risk and vulnerability, and secondly, how their impacts can be felt differently by different people, depending on their individual characteristics and circumstances.