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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Junker, Kirk W.a; * | Münster, Saskiab | Shinde, Mrinalinic
Affiliations: [a] Director, Environmental Law Center (ELC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany | [b] Mag. Iur., General Manager, ELC, Germany | [c] Project Manager, ELC, Germany
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. kirk.junker@uni-koeln.de.
Note: [+] This article is drawn from as well as thoroughly revised and updated from the article published in Environmental Policy and Law 52 (2022) 265– 276.
Abstract: We are already witnessing climate-induced migration and thus must prepare to address the next decades of even more human mobility as a consequence of the climate disruption crisis. Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference, international environmental law still needs solutions to protect those persons most vulnerable to environmental harm. This paper seeks to focus on the concept of reparative justice as the theme and attitude of legal solutions, so as to refocus legal tools to provide relief to those persons who are displaced and dispossessed because of the climate disruption crisis. In this paper, we present possibilities for a reparative climate justice regime that could help to break the current cycle of harm and denial in which states are currently embroiled within international climate negotiations. This focus considers how careful solutions such as credit within the financial mechanisms under the Paris Agreement, in a spirit of trust and solidarity, could contribute to legal solutions to climate migration problems. The paper first iterates the scope and history of climate-induced migration in international law and then presents the case for reparations as a strong legal response to climate-induced migration, before finally exploring the legal avenues within international climate law wherein reparative justice and financing could potentially operate.
Keywords: Climate-induced migration, environmental migrants, environmental refugees, slow-onset events, climate change, UNFCCC, reparations, climate justice, reparative justice, trust fund, loss and damage
DOI: 10.3233/EPL-219053
Journal: Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 52, no. 5-6, pp. 473-485, 2022
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