Environmental Migration Portal

From 2.30pm - 4.00pm CET / 1.30pm - 3.00pm (GMT)

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How is the issue of human mobility in the context of disasters, environmental degradation and climate change treated in the global policy debate (including the Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC and the Task Force on Displacement)?

Moderator: Nina Birkeland, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Speakers:

• Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh - disaster displacement as loss and damage under the UNFCCC
• Dina Ionesco, International Organization for Migration - managing migration and protecting rights in times of climate change
• Andrew Harper, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – the meaning and scope of climate action under the GCR and how to protect the disaster displaced 
• Ezekiel Simperingham, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - preparing for and responding to disaster displacement

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