Call for planning to deal with Pacific "climate refugees"

Professor Jane McAdam discusses why refugee law isn't that easy to fix on Radio Australia (ABC Radio Australia). This interview was also played on ABC 774 Melbourne. Please see summary of interview below:

Refugee law that isn't an easy fix because it requires people to be persecuted normally by a government or a group of people that the government can't protect them from, and has to be persecution because of your race, religion, nationality, political opinion or your membership of a particular social group. Now obviously while the impacts of climate change can be very, very harmful, that doesn't amount to what's understood as persecution in international law, much less so for those reasons that I've mentioned before.

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