Traduction de «réfugié climatique » (Français → Anglais) :

[1]1) Inclusion of migrants and refugees; 2) Air quality; 3) Urban poverty; 4) Housing; 5) Circular economy; 6) Jobs and skills in the local economy; 7) Climate adaptation; 8) Energy transition

to support the Commission's active participation in the ongoing debate on Protection Gaps and Responses launched by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as part of the 2010 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, which aims to improve the existing international protection framework for forcibly displaced and stateless people; to participate actively in the debate on the term ‘climate refugee’ (intended to describe people who are forced to flee their homes and seek refuge abroad as a consequence of climate change), including a possible legal definition of this term, which is not yet recognised in international ...[+++] law or in any legally binding international agreement; Miscellaneous

We are on the point of creating a new order of refugees, climate refugees who are not protected today under any international convention, and, as a result, they have no rights.

According to the UN, 50 million of the victims of climate change could become climate refugees and they currently do not benefit from any form of specific legal protection.

If climate change continues, many islands in Pacific ACP countries will disappear and the region will face problems with environmental refugees.

With climate change and increasing sea levels many low-laying Pacific islands are at risk and the region may in future face a serious problem in terms of environmental refugees.