Climate Change’s negative effects can disrupt people’s way of living in such a manner that oblige them to displace. In such events, displacements would be an adaptation to climate change. If displacements are international, people could suffer vulnerabilities if they are not offered an effective legal framework in the host country, either through Migration Law (including Human Rights protection), International Asylum Law, or subsidiary protection. Providing effective legal protection to climate-displaced people is also an (indirect) adaptation to climate change and, consequently, a green transition action.
The research hypothesis is that there are climate-displaced people among asylum seekers, as well as among those who apply for subsidiary protection or a temporary residence permit due to humanitarian reasons, and they are not given effective legal protection. A secondary hypothesis is that climate-displaced women are a target group that deserves special protection.
The project aims to contribute to the adaptation of the Spanish proceedings on asylum, subsidiary protection and temporary permits due to humanitarian reasons to the challenges climate displacements bring by: identifying and grading climate-displaced people’s vulnerability, and helping administrative and judicial authorities in their tasks of providing, particularly to women, effective protection.
