Dear all,
This may be of interest for some of you.
Best wishes from Brussels,
Silvia
Silvia Brugger
Director Climate and Energy Programme
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On the move: Migration policy and climate change
http://www.trust.org/spotlight/climate-migration
Join a live online debate on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 14:00-15:00 GMT (London time), hosted by Thomson Reuters Foundation's AlertNet Climate and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
Please contribute your written comments and questions at the live blog or via Twitter hashtag #climatemigration for our expert panel:
--Dominic Kniveton - professor of climate science and society, University of Sussex
--Koko Warner - head of environmental migration, social vulnerability and adaptation section, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
--Sam Bickersteth - chief executive, CDKN
--Tamer Afifi - research director, Where the Rain Falls project, UNU-EHS
--Guillermo Llinas - Colombia country project manager, CDKN
Climate change is already pushing people in the developing world to leave their homes - and they are doing so in many different ways. Some find they can no longer farm their land due to extreme weather or rising seas, and are moving their whole families. Others are sending relatives to cities to look for seasonal work to boost dwindling incomes. Climate-related disasters are also making large numbers homeless.
How is the world responding to this challenge? CDKN, for example, is supporting research and film-making on the effects of climate change on migration in Bangladesh, and how decision makers there can help the poorest. And the Nansen Initiative, launched in 2012, is developing a protection agenda for people displaced across borders by natural disasters. But it is widely recognised that both national and international policy responses lag behind the growing pace and scale of climate-linked migration.
This debate will explore the ways in which climate stresses are triggering migration and displacement, and what policy makers can do to assist those who are on the move.
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