Introduction
Recent trends show that there has been a gradual increase in climate-induced migration around the world. In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) warned that “climate, environmental degradation, and natural disasters increasingly interact with the drivers of refugee movements.”1 The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) analyzed data from 148 states and released the finding that 17.2 million people were displaced internally in 2018 as a result of climate change, whereas 10.8 million people were displaced due to violent conflicts.2 Following this, approximately seven million people left their homes due to climatic reasons in the first half of 2019.3 However, Myers predicted in 2002 that “200 million people overtaken by sea-level rise and coastal flooding, by disruptions of monsoon systems and other rainfall regimes, and by droughts of unprecedented severity and duration,”4 would emigrate in the coming years, while the IDMC demonstrated that around 265 million people already had to leave their country of origin owing to climate-related disasters between 2008-2018.5
