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New Publication! When the Luck Runs Out: Australia's Failure to Prepare for Climate Displacement
Australia is a country disproportionately responsible for CO2 emissions on a per capita basis. When contrasted with other nations...
Apr 1, 20241 min read
New Publication! Uncharted Waters: Exploring Judicial Avenues for Climate Displaced Communities
Most available legal procedures that could be used by climate displaced persons have not yet been invoked. This latest publication as...
Dec 31, 20231 min read
Less Than 1% of All Climate Change Court Cases Deal in Any Way with Climate Displacement
Despite the worsening climate displacement crisis, as of late-2023 only 19 cases relating to climate displacement have thus far been...
Oct 31, 20231 min read
The Peninsula Principles 10 Years On...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Peninsula Principles. Sadly, they've never been more necessary. To commemorate the...
Aug 18, 20231 min read
Aug 17, 20230 min read
The Peninsula Principles are More Relevant Than Ever.
Ever worsening extreme weather events are driving mass displacements across the globe. This report examines the continuing relevance of...
Aug 7, 20231 min read
Major U.N. Report Acknowledges Peninsula Principles
The Peninsula Principles have been formally acknowledged in a major report to the UN General Assembly. The most recent report to the...
Jul 3, 20231 min read
Land is Core to Solving Climate Displacement
Land lies at the core of solving climate displacement; the world as we know it is not prepared. Solving Climate Displacement Through...
Jul 3, 20231 min read
DS Calls for a new World Restitution Agency – It’s About Time!
In a world where every culture, every legal system, every religion, every set of moral principles views stealing as wrong, a crime and...
Feb 25, 20223 min read
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It’s Time for a Climate Displacement Levy!
Whether we like it or not, the truth is that the money needed to prevent and resolve climate displacement has not been forthcoming and is...
Jan 6, 20221 min read
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Scott Leckie addresses the worsening climate displacement crisis
DS has been active on the climate displacement front for 15 years now, and in the run to COP26 DS Director Scott Leckie has given a range...
Oct 21, 20211 min read
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Do We Need a New World Restitution Agency? Send Us Your Ideas
To everyone who is a parent and to those who are yet to become or may never become parents, what is one of the first things that parents...
Sep 30, 20213 min read
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Model Constitutional Article on the Right to Adequate Housing
Less than half of the world’s national Constitutions enshrine the legal right to adequate housing, despite the widespread recognition of...
Aug 29, 20212 min read
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Longstanding DS associate, Prof. Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new book – Law, Property and Disasters :
Longstanding DS associate, Prof. Daniel Fitzpatrick of Monash Law School in Melbourne, Australia, has published a new book – Law,...
Jul 27, 20211 min read
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DS & YPSA Launch Phase 3 of One House, One Family at a time in Bangladesh
DS and YPSA are delighted to announce the launch of Phase 3 of our One House, One Family at a time project in Bangladesh where we raise...
Jun 2, 20212 min read
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After Us The Deluge by Kadir van Lohuizen
Longtime DS collaborator and photojournalist extraordinaire Kadir van Lohuizen of NOOR Images has just released his latest beautiful...
May 3, 20211 min read
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Ninth OHOF House ready for occupants!
We are delighted to announce the completion of the ninth house of the joint DS-YPSA One House One Family at a time project (OHOF) in...
Apr 13, 20211 min read
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New DS Report (!) – Courtrooms and Climate Change
New DS Report (!) – Courtrooms and Climate Change: The Current State of Play – Global attention to the question of climate change,...
Dec 15, 20202 min read
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Climate Change and Human Rights Law School Course Goes Digital
DS Director Scott Leckie recently completed teaching his popular law school course at Monash Law School in Melbourne on Climate Change...
Oct 24, 20201 min read
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