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TRANSITION ARCHITECTURE FOR CLIMATIC REFUGGEES A STUDY PUBLISHED BY UN EXPECTS ABOUT 50 MILLION PEOPLE TO BE CLIMATIC REFUGEES BY 2010. THERE IS NO SET DEFINITION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A CLIMATE REFUGEE, AND THEY ARE OFTEN CLASSIFIED AS ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES. OTHERS CONSIDER CLIMATE REFUGEES AS A SUBCATEGORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES. A PAPER BY RENAUD, BOGARDI ET AL. (2007) POSED A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE ON THE MOVE IN RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL DISRUPTIONS INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE. THE USE OF THE TERM "REFUGEE" ITSELF IS CONTROVERSIAL, THE MAIN CONCERN BEING THAT USE OF THE TERM "REFUGEE" FOR CLIMATE OR ENVIRONMENT-RELATED DISPLACEMENT COULD DETRACT FROM THOSE PEOPLE PROTECTED UNDER THE 1951 GENEVA CONVENTION (WHICH PROTECTS POLITICAL REFUGEES FROM PERSECUTION) (SEE DUN, GEMENNE, AND STOJANOV 2007 FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION). NO CENTRAL TALLY IS KEPT BY THE UNITED NATIONS OF EITHER CLASSIFICATION. IN THE WORLD DISASTERS REPORT 2001[1] PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES, MORE PEOPLE ARE NOW FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAN WAR. THEY ESTIMATE APPROXIMATELY 25 MILLION PEOPLE COULD CURRENTLY BE CLASSIFIED AS BEING ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES. NGO AND LAWYERS HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED TO CREATE CLIMAT JUSTICE. UN HAS DEFINED A STATE FOR THOSE PEOPLE, FORCED TO MOVE FROM THEIR TRADITIONAL DWELLING, TEMPORALY OR PERMANENTLY, BECAUSE OF THE CLIMAT CHANGES WHICH HARDLY CHANGE THEIR WAY OF LIFE.