TOWARDS LITIGATING CLIMATE-INDUCED MIGRATION? CURRENT LIMITS AND EMERGING TRENDS FOR THE PROTECTION OF “CLIMATE-INDUCED MIGRANTS” IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

This paper analyses the recent development of the international law in the field of climateinduced migration. It opens with an evaluation of the initiative adopted at the regulatory level and explains that, despite notable efforts, a normative gap still exists. It then examines a new strategy, one that in recent years has been employed by communities and civil society organisations wishing to force progress in the fight against climate change – the use of litigation. It seems that (at least some of) this recent wave of litigation is relevant also in the more specific case of climate-induced migration.