CONCEPT OF PROTECTION OF REFUGEES DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN ASEAN WHETHER OR NON RATIFICATION state party GENEVA CONVENTION 1951
Cholidah, Fitria Esfandari
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Abstract
Since 2008, when the center began monitoring the supervision of the evacuation, 160 million people have been displaced in 161 countries. The highest risk is in Asia where countries are regularly exposed to typhoons, floods and earthquakes as an effect of climate change that will trigger the movement of people on a large scale. However, both the December 2009 UNFCCC and Copenhagen Accord processes did not reflect on or discuss displacement issues, regardless of their focus on adaptation; The UNFCCC is not designed to and cannot properly address the issue of climate change, and cannot be easily changed to accommodate people displaced from climate change (CCDP). This research was conducted using normative juridical methods which would analyze the concept of protection against refugees due to climate change in ASEAN countries whether those who ratified the 1951 Geneva convention or who did not ratify it. The author argues that the problem of refugees caused by global climate change is not a future discourse far from reality, this problem becomes a necessity along with development efforts, especially development that does not consider the concept of sustainability of the world ecosystem. Even so, the Geneva convention as the main convention on the prevention of refugees was not then ratified by all countries in the world and even recorded in the ASEAN region.
Keywords: Refugees, Climate Change, ASEAN
Topic: Human Right Issues