'Climate migration’ and the Security Council

Mégret, F. and Mayer, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-7457 (2018) 'Climate migration’ and the Security Council. In: Scott, S. V. and Ku, C. (eds.) Climate Change and the UN Security Council. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 85-100. ISBN 9781785364631 doi: 10.4337/9781785364648.00012

Abstract/Summary

In 2007, 2011 and 2015, the Council held special meetings to discuss ways of fighting the impact of climate change, including the possibility of deploying ‘green helmets’. There is a sense that the Council should have something to say on climate change, but the Council has struggled to define its role. The question of global migration flows has featured rather prominently in the Security Council’s meetings on global warming. Yet, these meetings have identified no evident concrete measures that the Security Council could realistically take to address either ‘climate migration’ as a whole, or even specific implications of climate change on human mobility. This chapter shows that the case for action of the Security Council in relation to climate migration is fraught with difficulties.