ABSTRACT
The world clearly has more than enough available land to provide for the needs of those facing and living with climate displacement, even if people base those needs on worst-case scenarios of sea level rise. The main pre-emptive efforts of preventive human rights work to address looming climate displacement of course seek to shape adaptation measures in such a way that they assist in preventing more dramatic outcomes such as migration and displacement. While the causation issue may be of relevance in the comparatively rare instances of individual asylum seekers arguing that climate change was the cause of their alleged persecution, for the vulnerable coastal and inland communities of the countries just mentioned, the causation issue is in practice much ado about very little. People have developed plans to assist climate displaced persons (CDPs) to secure land parcels in Bangladesh, Panama and Papua New Guinea, and are researching similar actions in Kiribati, the Maldives, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and elsewhere.
