Dig deeper

This list below is just a selection of our many publications – including scholarly work, opinion pieces, blogs, reports and submissions – to give you a sense of what other Kaldor Centre resources are available.

Legal and policy frameworks

The Kaldor Centre Principles on Climate Mobility (2023)

The Kaldor Centre Principles offer governments, affected communities, international organisations, civil society groups and other stakeholders evidence-based, legally sound tools for addressing climate mobility.

Sydney Declaration of Principles on the Protection of Persons Displaced in the context of Sea Level Rise, Annex to International Law Association Res 6/2018 (August 2018)

The Sydney Declaration provides guidance to States in averting, mitigating, and addressing displacement of persons occurring in the context of sea level rise, based on and derived from relevant international legal provisions, principles, and frameworks.

Books

Jane McAdam, Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Jane McAdam (ed), Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Hart Publishing, 2010)

Opinion pieces and blogs

Jane McAdam, ‘Expanding Refugee Protection for a Changing Climate’, The Mandarin (19 June 2024)

Jane McAdam, ‘Australia’s Offer of Climate Migration to Tuvalu Residents is Groundbreaking – and Could Be a Lifeline Across the Pacific’, The Conversation (11 November 2023)

Jane McAdam, ‘Maui after Fire Illustrates Need to Plan for Longer-Term Disaster Displacement’, Just Security (5 September 2023)

Jane McAdam, ‘Amid Global Warning of “Exodus”, Pacific Countries Lead the Way on Mobility Responses’, Researching Internal Displacement (20 April 2023)

Elizabeth Ferris and Erica Bower, ‘Planned Relocations: What We Know, Don’t Know, and Need to Learn’, Researching Internal Displacement (15 March 2023)

Jane McAdam, ‘Should They Stay or Find Another Home? First, Talk to the Flood Victims’, Sydney Morning Herald (4 November 2022)

Jane McAdam, ‘International Law on Refugees Has a Climate Change Problem’, World Politics Review (22 September 2022)

Michelle Foster, Nicola Hard, Hélène Lambert and Jane McAdam, ‘Preventing Statelessness and Nationality Loss in the context of Climate Change’, European Network on Statelessness (19 May 2022)

Jane McAdam, ‘Evacuations: Sometimes the Real Disaster Is What Happens After’, The Age (22 March 2022)

Jane McAdam, ‘Protecting People Who Lose Their Homes to Climate Change’, The Interpreter (26 October 2021)

Jane McAdam, ‘Millions of People were Evacuated during Disasters Last Year: The Rising Human Cost of Climate Change’, The Conversation (20 October 2021)

Jane McAdam, ‘As Biden Seeks Answers on Climate’s Impact on Migration, Sydney Declaration Provides Legal Ground Rules for Action’, Just Security (19 February 2021)

Jane McAdam and Jonathan Pryke, ‘Preparing for When Climate Change Drives People from Their Homes’, The Interpreter (27 October 2020)

Jane McAdam and Jonathan Pryke, ‘An Australian Model to Address Climate-Related Displacement: How to Flatten the Curve’, Just Security (22 October 2020)

Jane McAdam and Jonathan Pryke, ‘We Can No Longer Ignore the Threats Facing the Pacific: We Need to Support More Migration to Australia’, The Conversation (22 October 2020)

Jane McAdam, ‘Climate Refugees Cannot Be Forced Back Home’, Sydney Morning Herald (20 January 2020)

Jane McAdam, ‘The Policy Problems of Fleeing Disaster’, Policy Forum (17 January 2020)

Jane McAdam, ‘Managing Displacement in the Era of Climate Change’, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (7 November 2019)

Jane McAdam, ‘Australia’s Chance to Turn with the Tide: Enabling Safe, Orderly, and Dignified Movement’, Policy Forum (15 May 2019)

Jane McAdam and John Church, ‘Rising Seas Will Displace Millions of People – and Australia Must Be Ready’, The Conversation (23 August 2018)

Jane McAdam, ‘Seven Reasons the UN Refugee Convention Should Not Include “Climate Refugees”’, Sydney Morning Herald (6 June 2017)

Jane McAdam, ‘How the Entire Nation of Nauru Almost Moved to Queensland’, The Conversation (15 August 2016)

Jane McAdam, ‘The Limits of Refugee Law’, World Economic Forum Agenda (19 June 2015)

Jane McAdam, ‘What to do about Climate Migration’, The Interpreter (Lowy Institute) (1 July 2013)

Jane McAdam, ‘Caught between Homelands’, Inside Story (13 March 2013)

Jane McAdam and Maryanne Loughry, ‘We Aren’t Refugees’, Inside Story (29 June 2009)

Submissions

Jane McAdam, Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the context of Climate Change, ‘Addressing the Human Rights Implications of Climate Change Displacement including Legal Protection of People Displaced Across International Borders’ (7 November 2022)

Submission to the US Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration on the Impact of Relocations, Evacuations and Statelessness (7 June 2021)

Jane McAdam, Erica Bower, Sanjula Weerasinghe and Tamara Wood, Submission to the US Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration on the Impacts of Climate Change on Migration, Protection and Resettlement (28 May 2021)

Jane McAdam, Erica Bower, Sanjula Weerasinghe and Tamara Wood, Submission to the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement in the context of Disasters and Climate Change (6 May 2020)