ABSTRACT
In situations of disaster, armed conflict, internal displacement, and displacement across borders, the absence of rules and principles of adaptation to climate change can lead to prioritising investments in emergency response and ignoring the long-term demand for disaster risk reduction. Evidence from previous literature indicates that a sizeable gap exists between investments in resilience to disaster and conventional spending in response to crises. In this chapter, the challenges and opportunities for building resilience to climate change with the aim of fulfilling the rights and needs of IDPs and refugees are considered. To address the gaps in monitoring data about displacement and protection efforts provided mostly according to the norms of supporting resettlement and voluntary return, the impact of addressing challenges of adaptation to climate, social integration, access to infrastructural services as outlined in the broader perspective of humanitarian protection law, and the long-term provision of access to human rights, land, and security of tenure at the city planning level is explored.
