Problem uznania migrantów klimatycznych przez system prawa międzynarodowego publicznego – sprawa Teitiota v The Chief Executive of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
The problem of recognition of climate migrants by the public international law – Teitiota v The Chief Executive of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment case

Summary/Abstract: The constantly growing range of the effects of climate change annually results in deterioration of living conditions of many people, even eliminating the possibility of further inhabitation of certain areas and forcing their residents to flee. In the most severe cases, mitigation or adaptation measures in changing circumstances may not be sufficient and migration may be the only solution. The legality of such migration may be a condition to obtain protection within the borders of the host country. The case that is a subject of this article concerns the Kiribati citizen who was trying to obtain a “climate refugee status”, but he was refused to grant such protection since he was not fulfilling the conditions under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951. The purpose of the article is to analyse a wide range of possibilities to obtain

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