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Legal considerations regarding claims for international protection made in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and disasters

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Climate change and disasters may affect the enjoyment of human rights because of human exposure, vulnerability to their impacts, and the State's capacity, ability, and willingness to provide protection. Climate change and disasters may limit access to and control over land, natural resources, livelihoods, individual rights, freedoms, and lives, which may threaten, among others, the enjoyment of the right to life; physical integrity; an adequate standard of living; health, water and sanitation; and self-determination and development. Populations may be gradually or immediately affected or suffer longer-term diminutions in their enjoyment of human rights. Both in the short and longer term, affected populations may be exposed to a risk of human rights violations that amount to persecution within the meaning of the 1951 Convention.