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Protecting climate refugees: The case for a global protocol

In August 2006, the government of the Maldives organized a meeting of representatives of governments, environmental and humanitarian organizations, and United Nations agencies on an issue that had until then been largely outside the climate policy debate: the protection and resettlement of “climate refugees.”1 For a small island nation like the Maldives, located only few … Continue reading Protecting climate refugees: The case for a global protocol