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  • 7 - Searching for Shelter in the Climate Crisis Era: Ecocide and Migration

  • Edited by Peter Stoett, Ontario Tech University, Delon Omrow, Ontario Tech University
  • Book:
    Ecoviolence Studies
    Published online:
    13 February 2025
    Print publication:
    20 February 2025, pp 121-138

  • Summary

    This chapter analyzes one of the most visible consequences of ecocide: eco-migration. The international criminal justice system does not include detrimental effects of ecocide or of social harm resulting in forced migration flows as a genuine crime capable of being prosecuted. However, a recent landmark United Nations Human Rights Committee decision claims that people should not be returned to their place of origin if climate change appears to constitute a threat. The United Nations Refugee Agency also welcomes such a pioneering ruling since it lays the ground for potentially effective international protection. This work examines the contemporary loophole regarding eco-displacements and ecocide and clamors for both legal and criminological international conceptualisation at ensuring the rights of eco-migrants, considering the future number of eco-migrants is unforeseeable.