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What do you mean by ‘climate migrants’? Suggest appropriate policies and programmes for their resettlement.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Population and Settlement Geography

Climate migrants are persons compelled to leave their habitual residence, temporarily or permanently, primarily because of sudden or progressive climate-driven change in the environment — a category the 1951 Refugee Convention does not recognise.

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  • Defining the Category: Two Drivers, Two Different Policy Instruments
  • Sudden-Onset Displacement
  • Slow-Onset Displacement
  • The Protection Gap: Why 'Climate Refugee' Is Rhetoric, Not Law
  • Strand I — Legal Status and Institutional Architecture
  • Strand II — In-Situ Adaptation First, Relocation as Last Resort
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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