22 February 2021

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Seminar: Climate Refugees: The Big Challenge of Public International Law and the European Union, 25 February 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

As Biden Seeks Answers on Climate’s Impact on Migration, Sydney Declaration Provides Legal Ground Rules for Action (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

"Biden Pushes US—and the World—to Help Climate Migrants," Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2021 [text]

Can Regional Refugee Definitions Help Protect People Displaced by Climate Change in Latin America? (RI Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

"Climate refugees are sinking out of sight," The World Today Magazine, 5 Feb. 2021 [text]

The Global Compacts on Refugees and for Migration and the Future of Climate Change-Induced Displaced Persons (RLI Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Turning the narrative on disaster displacement in the Global North (RLI Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

UNHCR and IOM call for improved safeguards for the displaced on the frontlines of climate emergency (UNHCR, Feb. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

*Assessing Urban Disaster Displacement Risk (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Feb. 2021) [text]

At a Climate Change Crossroads: How a Biden-Harris Administration Can Support and Protect Communities Displaced by Climate Change (Refugees International, Feb. 2021) [text]

"Climate Change Driven Displacement and Justice: The Role of Reparations," Essays in Philosophy, Online First, 30 Jan. 2021 [open access]

"Climate-Induced Human Displacement and Conservation Lands," Houston Law Review, vol. 58, no. 3 (2021) [full-text via SSRN]

Sudden-Onset Hazards and the Risk of Future Displacement in Fiji (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Oct. 2020) [text]

"When Climate Change and Xenophobia Collide," The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2021 [text]
- Focuses on the Bahamas.

Multimedia:

Aid’s climate challenge, Rethinking Humanitarianism Series, 20 Jan. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

Internal displacement, migration and planned relocation in the context of natural hazards, 13 Jan. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for seminar recording.

Legal Responses to Cross-border ‘Environmental’ Mobility, 10 Feb. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for seminar recording.

Re-examining displacement in the context of disasters and climate change: A Pacific perspective, 21 Jan. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

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