May

30

2024

VIRTUAL

10:00—11:00 AM ET

EVENTS | SEMINAR

Living in Displacement in the Climate Emergency: Refugees and Climate Shocks

Introduction

Samuel Huckstep, Research Associate, Center for Global Development

Moderator

Jocelyn Perry, Senior Advocate and Program Manager, Climate Displacement Program, Refugees International

Speakers

Evan Easton-Calabria, Senior Researcher, Tufts University

Jason Gagnon, Senior Economist/Head of Migration and Skills Unit, OECD Development Centre

Jamon van den Hoek, Associate Professor, Oregon State University

Qiyamud Din Ikram, Alumni Fellow, Refugees International

Lillian Kilwake, Gender and PSEA Programme Specialist, UNICEF

Jakob Øster, Executive Director, Last Mile Climate

Atle Solberg, Head of Secretariat, Platform on Disaster Displacement

Michelle Yonetani, Senior Policy Officer, Office of the Special Advisor to the High Commissioner on Climate Action, UN Refugee Agency

Refugees are often disproportionately exposed to climate shocks. They also often endure reduced rights, and may have fewer resources with which to adapt. Despite this, little research has been conducted into the effects of the climate emergency on refugees, limitations to their adaptive capacity, and ways of best supporting them in the context of increasing climate-related challenges.

Please join Refugees International and the Center for Global Development for a webinar on this urgent issue, featuring case studies and lessons from experts, as well as potential policy solutions to mitigating harms. An audience Q&A will follow.