Martin, Susan F. --- "Towards an extension of complementary protection?" [2017] ELECD 1363; in Mayer, Benoît; Crépeau, François (eds), "Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 449

Book Title: Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law

Editor(s): Mayer, Benoît; Crépeau, François

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785366581

Section: Chapter 21

Section Title: Towards an extension of complementary protection?

Author(s): Martin, Susan F.

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

This chapter reviews proposals towards an extension of complementary protection to individuals displaced across international borders by the effects of climate change and other environmental drivers. In particular, it discusses the outcomes of the Nansen Initiative, an intergovernmental initiative that sought to promote the development of a protection agenda through a series of consultation conducted from 2012 to 2016 under the leadership of Walter Kälin. In terms of process, Section II notes some parallels between this initiative and the developments which led to the adoption of the guiding principles on internal displacement. Section III recounts the origins and outcomes of the Nansen Initiative’s Agenda for Protection and its successor, the Platform on Disaster Displacement. The following section looks more closely into the Nansen Initiative’s recommendations on humanitarian admissions and deferral of deportation, a centrepiece of its protection agenda. The concluding section outlines the strengths and weaknesses in this approach to protection as well as next steps in this process.