Program
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International Responses to Climate-Induced Displacement
Panels
Pablo Rojas Coppari, facilitator
Senior Research Officer, International Organization for Migration
Work of the Climate Mobility Africa Climate Research Network
Lauren Grant, facilitator
Founding Executive Director, Beyond Climate Collaborative
Climate Mobility Justice: Reimagining Responsibility, Knowledge, and Belonging in a Warmer World
Allegra Lovejoy, facilitator
Project Manager, Center for Earth Ethics
Good practice in faith-based advocacy and support for climate-induced displacement
Steve Miron, facilitator
Joint Editor-in-Chief, Researching Internal Displacement Platform
What can we gain from a holistic view of (im)mobilities in the context of loss and damage?
Dennis Mombauer, facilitator
Director, Research & Knowledge Management, Sylcan Trust
Global and national policy frameworks for climate-induced mobility: challenges and solutions
Atle Solberg, facilitator
Head of Secretariat, Platform on Disaster Displacement
10 years since the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda, assessing progress and outlooks
Individual Speakers
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Dean, New School for Social Research and University Professor, The New School
Climate-Induced Displacement and the International Protection of Forced Migrants
Laurie Ashley
Resilience and Climate Adaptation Specialist
A reflection on approaches to climate and migration from the USAID experience
Dr. Alice Baillat
Policy Adviser at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Embedding Disaster Displacement in the UNFCCC Loss and Damage Agenda
Aya Boubel
PhD candidate in Political Science, World laboratory at Sciences Po Bordeaux
European Governance of Climate-Related Mobility: A Security Obsession?
Adele Del Guercio
Associate Professor of International Law, University of Naples L'Orientale
The protection of people moving in the context of climate change and environmental degradation
Carol Fernández Herrera
Senior Researcher, La Ruta del Clima
Climate Justice and Governance: Two Pathways to Address Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change
Michelle Leighton
Independent Consultant
From Crisis to Opportunity: Creating Decent Work Migration Pathways That Recognize Shared Responsibility
Felipe Navarro
Associate Director of Policy & Advocacy, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
Protection in Practice: Using the Law to Support Climate-Displaced People
Climate Risk and Actionable Responses
Thannaletchimy Housset and Bradley Mellicker
International Organization for Migration (IOM) | Thailand
From Risk to Resilience: Leveraging the Risk Index for Climate Displacement (RICD) to Inform Data-Driven Action in Asia and the Pacific
Dr. Architesh Panda
Independent consultant, Climate and Disaster Risk Finance Specialist
Internal Migration, Climate Risk, and Insurance in South Asian Cities: A Review of Evidence and Policy Pathways
Urban Institutions Addressing Migration In Adaptation Planning
Alex de Sherbinin
Director and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School
Climate Impacts on Rural-to-Urban Migration in India: Are Cities Ready for the Influx?
Chiamaka Rita Akpuogwu
Migration Researcher, Lawyer, and Climate Mobility Fellow, Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM)
Colonial Legacies, Coastal Precarity, and Climate Justice in Badagry, Lagos
Elisabeth du Parc
Programme Officer on Climate Resilience at IOM
Cities in Motion: Migration Pathways for Climate-Resilient Urban Development
Amit Tubi
Rural migrants in urban areas: Sources of vulnerability or agents of adaptive capacity
Dr. Ritwika Basu
PhD, Durham University, UK
Rethinking Climate Migration: From Precarious Labor Mobility to Agents of Urban Adaptation
Youth Responding to Climate Migration
Governance of Climate Migration in Small Island States
Elsa Barron
PhD Student in Peace Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame
Friends with Benefits: The Dark Side of the Falepili Union Treaty and a Just Vision for Climate Migration
Justyna H. Orlowska, Ph.D.
Senior Expert in the Polish Green Network
Lessons from the internal migration in the Maldives
Andrea C. Simonelli,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University
Supporting climate migrants – lessons from the SIDS
Dr. Robert Stojanov
Mendel University
Climate Migration or Adaptation? The dilemma of low-lying island residents
Regional, National, and Local Institutions Supporting Climate Migrants: Constraints and Opportunities
Dr. Bayes Ahmed
Associate Professor in the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR) at University College London (UCL)
Climate on the Move: Mapping Internal Migration in Bangladesh Amidst Environmental Crisis
Dr. Saleh Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Managing Climate Risks through Transformational Adaptation: Critical Insights from Bangladesh
Ludwig O. Federigan
Founding Executive Director and Chief Strategic Advisor, Young Environmental Forum
Navigating the Waves of Displacement: Understanding Climate-Induced Mobility in the Philippines
Dr. Mst Umme Habiba Fahmina Karim
Lecturer at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand
Trapped in Transition: Structural Constraints in Protecting Climate-Induced Migrants in Bangladesh
Dr. Mrinalini Kumar
The Uncharted Terrain of Climate Migration Law: Analysing India’s Perspective
Dr. Md. Golam Rabbani
Head of Climate Bridge Fund (CBF) Secretariat at BRAC
Climate Bridge Fund: Supporting Local Action for Climate-Displaced and Vulnerable Communities in Bangladesh
Advocacy for Supporting Climate Migrants
Sasha Haddad
Coordinator, Climate and Migrant Justice Organising Group, UK
The work of the Climate and Migrant Justice Policy Working Group
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, India
Advocacy for Climate Migrants
Between Mobility and Immobility - African and Asian Cases
Adelowo Adefisayo Adewoyin
Environmental Researcher & Climate Resilience Advocate
Climate-Driven Migration and Rural Immobility: Climate Impacts on Farming Livelihoods in Southwestern Nigeria
Ghurni Bhattacharya
Double Master of Arts in Sociology from Bielefeld University and Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (pursuing)
Penning down the labour migrant workers' realities in the cities: Insights from the Indian Sundarbans
Mrittika Bhattacharya
Doctoral Researcher in Sociology, University of Bristol, UK
“Sticking by”- Everydayness of Responding to Environmental Stressors by the Women of Sundarban Across Borders
Dr. Julia Blocher
Project Lead, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Habitability and human mobility-related loss of social resilience and cohesion: Insights from five countries
Tigist Getahun Geleta
PhD Student, Dr. B. D. Ambedkar University, Delhi, India
Climate-Induced Displacement in Southern Ethiopia: A Case Study of Borena’s Pastoralist and Agro-pastoralist Communities
Sobia Ibrahim
Programmes Officer, SKT Welfare
The nexus of climate vulnerability, marginality and migration in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
Semta Sebastian Lepariyo
Human Rights Advocate | Program Officer, Impact Kenya
Grassroots Resilience in the Face of Climate Displacement: Lessons from Indigenous Communities in Kenya’s Arid Regions
Ms. Clare Steiner
Research Associate, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) - Asia
Beyond drivers: A justice approach to unpacking climate and environmental mobility outcomes in Thailand’s Mekong communities
Aweke Agumas Tewachew
Lecturer, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia
Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Geospatial Technology for Climate Change Adaptation and Climate Migrant Support in Ethiopia
North American Governance of Climate-Induced Displacement
Elizabeth Eklund, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University
Climate migrant though the lens of the past: Homelands and hard limits to adaptation
Luz Adriana Hernandez Orozco
MSc Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management
Climate Mobility and Institutional Gaps: Insights from Mexico
Dr. Elizabeth Kiester
Associate Professor of Sociology
The Narrative of Safety and Resilience: How Climate Havens in the U.S. Frame Their Efforts to Prepare For Climate Migrants
Geneviève Minville
PhD Candidate in Geography (York University) & Research Specialist (CERDA)
Rethinking Climate Mobility for Flexible Policy Responses
Khanh-Linh Ta and Mai Nguyen
Capacity-Building and Urban Integration of Climate Migration: Narrative, Policy, and Practice in the Great Lakes
Lynn Weaver
Legal Responses to (Im)Mobility in the Context of Climate Change:
A Study of Mexico-Argentina and Mexico-Canada Pathways
Themes for the symposium and presentation and panel titles are listed below, as well as names and affiliations of many of the presenters and panel facilitators.