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Climate migration: who protects those forced to leave?

The climate already drives out more people than war, and no law knows what to call them.

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Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

Rising water does not always arrive as a spectacular wave. It nibbles away a field first, then a well, then a whole village. Elsewhere, extreme heat makes the air almost impossible to breathe. In both cases entire families have to leave, not because of a war but because of the climate. These forced departures have a name: climate migration. The problem is that no international law really recognizes them.

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  1. 2An exodus already bigger than war
  2. 3Two speeds of rupture: the shock and the slow grind
  3. 4A legal vacuum facing a global crisis
  4. 5Toward recognition and local adaptation
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