Climate refugees: cause for a new agreement?

With their proposed Protocol for the Recognition, Protection, and Resettlement of Climate Refugees, Frank Biermann and Ingrid Boas ⁸¹ make a bold and provocative suggestion, one of a number of political responses that are being floated as the world moves toward designing a new post-2012 architecture for managing climate change. Putatively a new protocol under the supervision of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, its goal would be to enable nation-states to manage proactively the resettlement of people who may face displacement due to climate change.