The applicant applied for refugee status and protected persons status on the grounds of suffering from the effects of climate change in his country of origin, Kiribati, including steadily rising water levels and associated environmental degradation, which the applicant feared would forcibly displace inhabitants to leave their islands. The Refugee and Protection Office declined his application. In...

The United Nations Environment Assembly,

Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 70/202 of 1 December 2015, which reaffirmed the Declaration of Barbados and the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, the Mauritius Declaration and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small...