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The civilization that human race enjoys today is the achievement accomplished through ceaseless challenges of humankind. However, the balance in nature has been disturbed consequently. Disasters resulting from environmental destruction are phenomena we are witnessing at present, rather than those that will appear in the future, and calamities caused by abnormal weather phenomena become more frequent and more serious year after year. Therefore, the international society urgently needs to join efforts and take countermeasures so as to control the acceleration of global warming and protect the Earth from environmental destruction. Appropriate measures shall be also taken to assist and protect disadvantaged groups of environmental refugees(climate refugees) who have to leave their habitual homes in a "critical situation in which they are forced to leave or to die" due to any environmental factor. The term "environmental refugees" is still highly controversial but is used here in this study to define people who are forced to leave their existing dwellings or have no choice but to depart from the country of their nationality due to global climate change or any huge natural disaster. Since the occurrence of environmental refuges might become a potential threat to the security of the international society, it is necessary to protect and assist them under an agreement of the international society. Furthermore, it is also necessary to assist them in enjoying their rights essential for living as human beings in terms of the protection of human rights with more care and attention for protecting them in brotherhood with humanitarian conscience.