As we get closer to COP26 in Glasgow this November and following on from the Climate and Development Ministerial on 31 March 2021, I want to come back to an issue I discussed in a series of blogs last year: statelessness caused by the impact of climate change. One way to look at citizenship is as the connection between a …
For this blog, part of my series focusing on climatic statelessness, I return to the issue of small island states at risk of disappearing due to slow-onset climate change. My first blog of the series, looked at how climate change and cross-border migration interrelate and what would happen in the event that entire communities and even states were displaced due …