Recognition of climate refugees by the European Union

  • Güleç, Merve Gülçin
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Publication date
January 2019
Publisher
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
Language
English

Abstract

75 pagesSince the twentieth first century climate change and the climate refugee issues are the most popular discussion topics in the international relations field. The migration related to climate change has been increasing. Since 2008, on average 26.4 millions of people migrated according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The response to the climate refugees problem in international or national areas has not been able to even agree on a definition for these in a common definition or a protection policy for them and consequently while the climate change continues to increase the refugee number will be increasing. According to United Nations Refugee Agency by 2050, up to 250 million people will be displaced as a result of clim...

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