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39 U.N.S.W.L.J. 1518 (2016)
From the Nansen Initiative to the Platform on Disaster Displacement: Shaping International Approaches to Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement

handle is hein.journals/swales39 and id is 1539 raw text is: UNSWLaw Journal FROM THE NANSEN INITIATIVE TO THE PLATFORM ON DISASTER DISPLACEMENT: SHAPING INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE, DISASTERS AND DISPLACEMENT JANE McADAM* 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where -' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you walk,' said the Cat. '- so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.' Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland' I INTRODUCTION In the past three years, there has been significant progress on both the conceptual and practical dimensions of displacement related to climate change and disasters. In October 2015, 109 states endorsed the Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change, providing a toolbox of concrete policy options and proposing a series of recommendations for future work.2 Important language on human mobility was incorporated in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-20303 * Scientia Professor and Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Faculty of Law, UNSW Australia. This research has been funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT110100721) and the Research Council of Norway (Project No 235638). I am grateful to Bruce Burson, Walter Kain and Atle Solberg for their helpful comments, and to Rebecca Dowd for editorial assistance. The author was a member of the Consultative Committee of the Nansen Initiative, and is a member of its successor body, the Advisory Committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement. 1 Lewis Carroll, Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland (D Appleton and Co, 1866) 89-90. 2 The Nansen Initiative, 'Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change' (Vol 1, December 2015) ('Protection Agenda Vol ') <https://www.nanseninitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/PROTECTION-AGENDA-VOLUME- 1.pdf>; The Nansen Initiative, 'Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change' (Vol 2, December 2015) <https://www.nansen initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/PROTECTION-AGENDA-VOLUME-2.pdf>. 3 Sendai Frameworkfor Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, GA Res 69/283, UN GAOR, 69th SeSS, 92d plen mtg, Agenda Item 19(c), UN Doc A/RES/69/283 (23 June 2015) ('Sendai Framework'). 1518 Volume 39(4)

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