88
Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change
Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change
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83 UNFCCC Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage,
Loss and Damage Online Guide (22 March 2024); UNDRR and International Science Council (ISC),
UNDRR–ISC Hazard Information Profiles — 2025 Update of the Technical Report (2025); UNDRR,
Technical Guidance on Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Planning in the Context of Climate
Change (2022) contribution to the work of the Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk
Management of the UNFCCC Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Associated
with Climate Change Impacts.
101 Article 1 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons defines a
stateless person as someone who is ‘not recognized as a national by any State under the
operation of its law’, 1954 Statelessness Convention (n 3); UNHCR Handbook (n 3) 7.
84 Ibid. Building on annotations to the definition of ‘hazard’ to clarify its application in the context
of climate change. See also World Weather Attribution, which conducts scientific attribution
studies examining how climate change influences the intensity and likelihood of extreme weather events, and how pre-existing vulnerabilities exacerbate their impacts. World Weather Attribution (Web Page, 2026) <https://www.worldweatherattribution.org>.
85 UNDRR, The Sendai Framework Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction (2017) (‘Sendai
Framework Terminology’) ‘Disaster’. This terminology has been endorsed by UN General
Assembly Resolution 71/276, Report of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group
on Indicators and Terminology Relating to Disaster Risk Reduction (2 February 2017)
UN Doc A/RES/71/276.
86 Office of the Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement, IASC–UNSDG Guidance on
Solutions to Internal Displacement (February 2025) prepared in collaboration with members of
the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG) and the Inter-Agency Standing
Committee (IASC).
87
UNDRR, Sendai Framework Terminology (n 85) ‘Exposure’.
88 IPCC, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change
Adaptation: A Special Report of Working Groups I and II (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
582.
89
Ibid.
90
UNDRR (n 85) Sendai Framework Terminology ‘Hazard’.
91 UNFCCC, Report of the Conference of the Parties on its sixteenth session, held in Cancun from
29 November to 10 December 2010, UN Doc FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1 (15 March 2011)
decision 1/CP.16, [14(f)].
92
United Nations Statistics Division (n 74) ‘United Nations Legal Identity Agenda’.
93 IPCC (n 16) Sixth Assessment Report: Working Group II Glossary and UNFCCC (n 83) Loss and
Damage Online Guide, while noting that no formal definition exists under UNFCCC processes.
94 UNFCCC Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage,
Technical Guide on Integrating Human Mobility and Climate Change. Linkages into Relevant
National Climate Change Planning Processes (Report, UNFCCC, 2024)
95 IPCC, Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of
1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the
context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable
development, and efforts to eradicate poverty: Annex I Glossary (Cambridge University Press)
541–562.
96 UNHCR Handbook (n 3) 57; See also HRC, General Comment No 27: Freedom of Movement
(2 November 1999) UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.9, [20].
97
IROSS (n 46).
98 UNHCR, Brookings Institution and Georgetown University, Guidance on Protecting People from
Disasters and Environmental Change through Planned Relocation (Report, 7 October 2015).
99 UNFCCC Secretariat, Slow onset events technical paper, UN Doc FCCC/TP/2012/7
(26 November 2012) [20].
100
UNFCCC (n 91), [25].
102 IPCC, Climate Change 2022 — Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Working Group II
Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(Cambridge University Press, 2023) annex 2.
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