ABSTRACT
The first assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) in 1990 that maintained 'the greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration'. The preamble introduces the Peninsula principles on climate displacement within states. The Peninsula principles recognise that climate-displaced persons are already rights-holders under existing general international human rights instruments. Forms of human mobility arising from natural disasters and the adverse impacts of climate change range from evacuation and short-term displacement through to permanent relocation of entire communities and, at certain thresholds of climate change, potentially permanent relocation of even entire national populations. The combined effects of sea-level rise, riverine flooding and storm surges could not only displace its inhabitants from its low-lying areas, but also affect the role of the city as a domestic migration destination and as an international migration hub in the context of regional labour movements.
