Um novo desafio ao direito : deslocados/migrantes ambientais : reconhecimento, proteção e solidariedade

Abstract

This paper develops a study on the issue of people moving up to environmental causes. Thus, says the issue of movement of human beings the planet, looking for the historical trajectory of people and asylum and refugee protection that has been agreed to by the relevant international and regional agreements and the UN´s role in the articulation of solutions that protect such groups. Examines also the issue of people moving up within the territory of their countries, arguing that these moves are the same reasons that those who choose to cross the borders of states and thus deserve similar support. From this finding and the development of environmental problems, mainly as a result of the climate change and has generated and still generate a large number of displaced persons, affecting the territory of entire countries and preventing the permanence of populations, such that to ensure the survival, in the places affected, due to events such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, sea level rise, among others, seeks to, precisely, to construct a definition of people who migrate for environmental reasons, to serve as a basis for development of international legal instruments and involving all those who migrate within or outside their country for reasons related to the environment. To do so, examines the fundamental legal principles such as solidarity and common responsibility, but different, which will guide the construction of such mechanisms and how the international environmental law may establish foundations for the realization of protection of the environmental displaced.