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44 N.C. J. Int'l L. 425 (2018-2019)
Climate Change, Migration, Law, and Global Governance

handle is hein.journals/ncjint44 and id is 528 raw text is: Climate Change, Migration, Law, and Global Governance Elizabeth Ferris f I.Introduction ................................425 II.Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement ... .....432 III.National-Level Policies ................. ......436 IV.Planned Relocations .................... .....440 V.Refugee Law .................... ................442 VI.International Law Commission Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters.........445 VII.Mini-Multilateral Initiatives: The Nansen Initiative and the Platform for Disaster Displacement ... ......447 VIII. The International Climate Change Regime ...............449 IX.Building on Operational Guidance ...............453 X.Promising Areas for Further Work . ...............455 I. Introduction Our earliest records of human existence provide evidence that people have always moved for environmental reasons.' Moving away from areas at environmental risk, whether because of drought or sudden onset disasters, is a well-tested strategy people have used to survive and to protect themselves from harm.2 In the past few decades, evidence has mounted that the effects of anthropogenic climate change will make certain parts of the planet uninhabitable and that consequently large numbers of people will likely have to t Elizabeth Ferris is research professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. i Amanda Mascarelli, Climate Swings Drove Early Humans out ofAfrica (and Back Again), SAPIENS (Sept. 21, 2016), https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/early-human- migration/ [https://perma.cc/53B2-68J2]. 2 Ed Chen, Climate Induced Migration and Conflict: Historical Evidence, and Likely Future Outlook, SCIENCE 2.0 (Sept. 21, 2009), https://www.science20.com/alchemist/blog/climateinduced-migration-andconflict-his torical evidence andlikelyfuture outlook [https://perma.cc/GQ8A-BCDU].

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