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Recent data shows that out of the 344 million people displaced by extreme weather conditions and natural disasters between 2008 and 2021, only two percent did not return to the subregion or place from which they were displaced (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Why creating a new legal class of 'climate refugees' is a bad idea

It is imperative that the international community focus on tempering the negative consequences of climate change and developing adaption measures, so that people in the affected areas do not find themselves displaced from their homes and may build their livelihoods.

Calls for developed countries to prepare for the arrival of 'climate refugees' and to expand the UN Refugee Convention accordingly are uninformed and, worse, counter-productive.

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Clim...

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Recent data shows that out of the 344 million people displaced by extreme weather conditions and natural disasters between 2008 and 2021, only two percent did not return to the subregion or place from which they were displaced (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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Vit Novotny is the senior research officer for migration at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the official think-tank of the European People's Party.

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