The escalating impacts of climate change are compelling individuals to flee their homes, giving rise to a new category of refugees known as climate refugees. Despite clear evidence linking climate change to forced migration, the protection of these refugees’ human rights remains unaddressed by any existing international legal framework. This paper explores the necessity of embracing a new comprehensive international legal framework tailored to climate refugees. It advocates for a legal framework that addresses prevention and remedies the issues faced by climate refugees and ensures their human rights are safeguarded. We also argued that the Comprehensive International Legal Framework should have a collective obligation to safeguard the rights of climate refugees on the global scale and to provide a solution that integrates the various rules of law, meets humanitarian needs, and is tailored to the protection of the rights of climate refugees.

I. Introduction
II. The Concept and Dimensions of Climate RefugeeProtection
III. The Need for a Specialized ComprehensiveInternational Legal Framework for Climate Refugees
    A. Prioritization of the Climate Refugees Problem
    B. Specialized Comprehensive International Legal Frameworkblending Principles and Solutions
    C. The Civil Society and Affected Communities in Designing theArchitecture
IV. Key Elements of the Proposed ComprehensiveInternational Legal Framework in Climate Refugees
    A. Assessment Criteria
    B. Human Rights Safeguards
    C. Humanitarian Relief
    D. Collective Obligation
    E. Global Collaboration
    F. A Worldwide Fund
    G. An Organization for Coordinating Activities
V. Conclusion

• Tianbao Qin(Distinguished Luojia Professor of International Law at Wuhan University School of Law; Dean of Wuhan University School of Law; Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL), Wuhan University, China. LL.B./ LL.M./Ph.D. (Wuhan))
• Elias Kujo McDave(Former Dean, Faculty of Law of University of Cape Coast, Ghana. LL.B. (U. Ghana), BL (Ghana School of Law), LL.M. (U. New Hampshire))
• Donatus Dunee(Ph.D. candidate in Law at the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL) of Wuhan University, China. B.Sc. (U. Development Studies, Ghana), LL.M. (Ocean U.-China))
• Palmer Prince Dagadu(Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL) of Wuhan University, China; Affiliate, Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London. B.Ed. (U. Cape Coast, Ghana), LL.B. (Kaaf U.-Ghana), LL.M./Ph.D. (Xiamen)) Corresponding author