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Program at a glance
Today’s truths: What decision-makers need to know about human mobility and climate change
19 October 2021, 9:30-10:30am AEDT
Experts set out the key questions and principles that should guide responses to mobility in the face of climate change.
Rabab Fatima
Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations
Andrew Harper
Special Advisor on Climate Action to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Frances Namoumou
Pacific Conference of Churches
Nicole Shepardson
US Department of State
Chair: Jane McAdam
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
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This panel will be followed by a breakout session:
How far have we come? In conversation with Jane McAdam and Maryanne Loughry
19 October 2021, 10.35-11.30am AEDT
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Join two trailblazers in climate-related displacement research for a conversation about the problems and progress they've encountered in more than a decade in the field.
Moving beyond ‘climate refugees’: Readying law, policy and practice for displacement in a warming world
19 October 2021, 5.30-6.30pm AEDT
How does law help or hinder people on the move from the impacts of disasters or climate change?
Bruce Burson
New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal
Lucy Daxbacher
Head of Mission to Uganda, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Walter Kälin
Envoy of the Chair, Platform on Disaster Displacement
Caroline Zickgraf
Deputy Director, The Hugo Observatory
Chair: Tamara Wood
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Litigating climate change displacement: Cutting-edge cases and decisions
20 October 2021, 9.30-10.30am AEDT
From Alaska to the Torres Strait, litigation is raising creative arguments about climate change displacement.
Robin Bronen
Alaska Institute for Justice
Ama Francis
International Refugee Assistance Project
Adam McBeth
Victorian Bar
Solomon Yeo
Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change
Chair: llona Millar
Baker McKenzie
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This panel will be followed by a breakout session:
Making a difference: Emerging scholars in climate change, migration and displacement
20 October 2021, 10.35-11.30am
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Join the next generation of scholars – working with urgency in a too-rapidly warming world – for a frank discussion about researching climate change and mobility and how to connect research to policy and advocacy work.
Does the data on climate and disaster displacement add up?
20 October 2021, 5.30-6.30pm AEDT
What do we know, how do we know it, and what more do we need to know to inform policies on climate change and mobility?
Vicente Anzellini
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Tautala Mauala
Samoan Red Cross
Andrea Milan
International Organization for Migration
Kira Vinke
Center for Climate and Foreign Policy
Chair: Sanjula Weerasinghe
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Should I stay or should I go? Planned relocations
21 October 2021, 9.30-10.30am AEDT
When whole communities need to relocate, who decides – to move at all, and if so, where?
Erica Bower
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Daniel Fitzpatrick
Faculty of Law, Monash University
Salote Soqo
Climate Justice & Crisis Response, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Merewalesi Yee
University of Queensland
Chair: Elizabeth Ferris
Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
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Side event
Ecological threats towards 2050:
Understanding ecological threats, resilience and peace
21 October 2021, 12.30-1.30pm
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In this side event co-hosted by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and the Australian Intercultural Society, explore the findings from the IEP's newly released Ecological Threat Register, and how we can create more resilient societies better able to adapt to extreme ecological shocks, now and into the future.
To Glasgow and beyond: Building support for people moving away from climate change
21 October 2021, 5.30-6.30pm AEDT
How can we build support for people at risk of climate and disaster displacement, at COP26 and beyond?
Nisreen Elsaim
UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Alex Randall
Climate and Migration Coalition
Koko Warner
UN Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Martijn Wilder
Pollination Group
Chair: Linh Do
Head of Campaign Networks, Climate Catalyst