Countries Can’t Turn Back at Risk Climate Refugees – The Energy Mix
Countries can no longer send climate refugees back to nations of origin where the climate crisis might threaten their lives, according to a ruling by the United Nations Human Rights Committee earlier this month—even though the Kiribati resident who filed the original case lost his bid for relocation in New Zealand.
“The judgment—which is the first of its kind—represents a legal ‘tipping point’ and a moment that ‘opens the doorway’ to future protection claims for people whose lives and well-being have been threatened due to global heating,” The Guardian writes. “Tens of millions of people are expected to be displaced by global heating in the next decade.”