During 2013, the UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition held a series of events to debate and discuss legal protection for people who move in the context of environmental change. The feedback and thinking taking place during the workshop sessions have become the foundations of two documents recently launched by the UKCCMC and made available online.

Creating legal protection explores the various options available for filling the gap in legal protection for people who move in the context of environmental change. It outlines eight possible options and explores their strengths and draw backs. During our workshop sessions these options were debated and discussed by participants from government, civil society and international agencies. The document is the culmination of our research and thoughts and feedback gathered during the workshops.

The guide to key resources and research is a quick way of gaining an overview of this wide ranging and often technical field. The document provides handy summaries of many of the key research papers and reports that are important to the field. While the document is not exhaustive, it does provide summaries of range of views from a number of key institutions and academics on the topic.

You can find more information about the publications and the work by UKCCMC here.