Climate hazards are a kind of violence: how planned international migration offers solutions

Published on February 20, 2024

Unlike war, environmental impacts are not accepted as a reason to seek asylum under international law. But this could change as Australia’s climate visa for citizens of small-island state Tuvalu legalises the status of the climate migrant.

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