Climate-related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime
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Jiang, Xiaoyi, Huang, Zipeng and Zhao, Xiaobo. 2025. "Climate-related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime
." Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. 34 (1), pp. 210-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12611
| Article Title | Climate-related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime |
|---|---|
| ERA Journal ID | 35364 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Jiang, Xiaoyi, Huang, Zipeng and Zhao, Xiaobo |
| Journal Title | Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law |
| Journal Citation | 34 (1), pp. 210-227 |
| Number of Pages | 18 |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
| Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
| ISSN | 0962-8797 |
| 1467-9388 | |
| 2050-0386 | |
| 2050-0394 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12611 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/reel.12611 |
| Abstract | As the detrimental impacts of climate change intensify, individuals vulnerable to climatic disasters have left their homelands and migrated across borders for a better life. With the growing global circulation of human populations, the subject of international climate-related migration has gained much attention from the international community. From the Cancun Adaptation Framework, first recognising the importance of climate-related migration, to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty further advancing international migration practices by achieving bilateral agreement between States, the issues of climate-related migration have presented novel and complex challenges to international law. These challenges to the current international legal regime include lacking a more synergistic international legal system, existing legal gaps in international human rights protection, affecting States' compliance with their international obligations and threatening the national sovereignty and maritime rights of migrant-sending countries. Given the interdisciplinary and cross-cutting nature of climate-related migration practices, holistic legal responses aimed to coordinate multiple international legal regimes, provide comprehensive legal solutions to fill the legal gaps in climate-related migration, guarantee effective legal measures of human rights protection and prioritise national security of migrant-sending countries, should be considered to address current issues and prepare for potential risks associated with climate-related migration. |
| Keywords | Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty; Climate-related migration; Cancun Adaptation Framework |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 480704. Migration, asylum and refugee law |
| Public Notes | The accessible file is the accepted version of the paper. Please refer to the URL for the published version. |
| Byline Affiliations | Wuhan University, China |
| School of Law and Justice |
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