Legal – Policy Interface as a Remedying Force for Climate Migration and Induced Displacement

Complex problems call for far-reaching, long-term, holistic and sustainable solutions. It is not only necessary that such solutions are devised, but its effectiveness and implications are closely and regularly monitored and subjected to a feedback-mechanism for modifications and corrections. How can these be envisaged and incorporated in a single formula? The paper is an attempt at answering this query. Climate change is a loomig reality rather than a speculative theory today with international and national efforts being channeled towards finding solutions to its ever-encompassing and at times, unforeseeable effects. For its normative prongs being founded in and connected to the socio, political, economic and technological manifestations of society, law is often chosen as a regulatory tool. However, even when its efficacy in this role is proven, law as a tool have met with failures too. So, how do one tether and define the boundaries, content and elements of a legal framework if we were to create one to address climate migration and induced displacement? It is the argument of the author that such formulations need to be based on informed data, and a solid blueprint rather than ‘Latin and Greek’ in isolation. The paper argues for an interface augmenting the elements of law, policy and science instead of a piece-meal approach of these realms.