ABSTRACT
Some substantive alternatives to 'climate refugee' have been advanced. Increasingly the ones that have come to be relied upon are those such as 'climate-induced displacement' or 'disaster-induced displacement'. There are a number of specific objections to the use of the term 'refugee' when discussing the phenomenon of people forced from their homes due to climate change. Developing a further category of 'climate refugees' can actually take forward some of the key underpinnings of the currently accepted definition, namely the concept of protection and the right to have rights outside of one's country of nationality. At the outset, therefore, one should explain that they are mainly concerned with those people who will be forced to cross an international boundary as a result of the fact that climate change has directly or indirectly made, or will make, their habitats no longer liveable.
