Climate change creates migrants
President Joe Biden s administration is studying the idea of offering asylum or other legal protections to people displaced specifically because of climate change since no nation does
Author:
Julie Watson
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the tiny Pacific island nation they fled, one of the lowest-lying countries on Earth.
While New Zealand s courts didn t dispute high tides pose a risk to Kiribati, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, laws dealing with refugees didn t address the danger so the government deported them.
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Joe Biden considers protections for climate change refugees after New Zealand case
20 Apr, 2021 05:57 PM
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By: Julie Watson of AP
Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the tiny Pacific island nation they fled, one of the lowest-lying countries on Earth.
Julie Watson April 20, 2021 - 9:36 AM
SAN DIEGO - Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the tiny Pacific island nation they fled, one of the lowest-lying countries on Earth.
While New Zealand s courts didn t dispute high tides pose a risk to Kiribati, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, laws dealing with refugees didn t address the danger so the government deported them.
No nation offers asylum or other legal protections to people displaced specifically because of climate change. President Joe Bidenâs administration is studying the idea, and climate migration is expected to be discussed at his first climate summit, held virtually Thursday and Friday.