Focus: Climate Change/Environmental Displacement

Publications:

"11 Islands That Will Vanish When Sea Levels Rise," Business Insider, 12 Oct. 2012 [access]
- Photo essay including image on the left.

*Climate Change & Migration: What is the Role for Migration Policies? Policy Brief (ICMPD, May 2012) [text via Oppenheimer Chair]

ClimMig Conference on Human Rights, Environmental Change, Migration and Displacement, Vienna, 20-21 September [access]
- Some of the presentations at this conference are beginning to be made available, including "Forced Migration Norms in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Somalia" and "Constitutionalism of Climate Justice: Towards An International Legal Framework for Responding to Climate Induced Migration and Displacement."

DS Hosts International Workshop on Land Solutions to Climate Displacement (Displacement Solutions, Oct. 2012) [info]
- Note reference to forthcoming edited volume of papers from this workshop.

"'Environmental Refugees': Aspects of the Law of State Responsibility," Chapter in Migration and Climate Change (Cambridge Univ. Press, June 2011; posted Aug. 2012) [postprint]

"Sinking Islands? Formulating a Realistic Solution to Climate Change Displacement," New York University Law Review, vol. 87, no. 4 (Oct. 2012) [full-text]

"Thematic Section: Climate Change and Migration," Part III in Human Rights of Migrants: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/67/299 (UN General Assembly, Aug. 2012) [text via Oppenheimer Chair]

What Research on Climate Change and Human Mobility Can/Should Provide for Practitioners and Policy Makers, Informal Lunch Roundtable on Climate Change and Human Mobility, Washington, DC, 26 September 2012 [meeting report]

Upcoming event:

Tracing Social Inequalities in Environmentally-Induced Migration, Bielefeld, Germany, 9-13 December 2012 [info]
- Concept note and list of speakers/accepted participants now available.

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