(Im)mobility in the context of climate change: between legal challenges and legal experiments

1. Introduction. – 2. Situating the EU in the Global Debate on the Climate Change and Mobility Nexus. – 2.1. Attempts to Address the Issue of Protection of “Climate Refugees” in the EU. – 2.2. Gaps and Limits in the EU Approach to Climate Change Migration. – 3. Looking Beyond Europe: International Protection in a Changing Climate. – 3.1. Refugee Law: No “Climate Refugees” but Standard Application of the Refugee Convention. – 3.2. Human Rights Law: Environmental Harm Potentially Sufficient to Trigger Non-Refoulement Obligations. – 3.3. International Protection: Part of the Solution(s) to Climate Threats. – 4. (Im)mobility in the global policy making and international (soft) law. – 5. Ad hoc solutions and experiments to foster climate change-related protection: the case of inhabitants of small State islands in the Oceania region. – 5.1. Contextualization: Migratory Challenges, Legal Issues, New and Old Approaches to Displacement in Oceania. – 5.2. New Zealand and Australia’s Labour Mobility Schemes vs Possible Emerging Obligations. – 5.3. The “Climate Change Visas” and the Special Mobility Pathway under the Australia-Tuvalu “Falepili” Agreement. – 5.4. The Pacific Regional Framework on Climate Mobility. – 6. Conclusions.