Event

Policy Dialogue: What is habitability? Climate Change & Human Rights

  • 26/06/2023
  • 27/06/2023
Start
  • 14:00
End
  • 14:00
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This Policy Dialogue which took place in Geneve on 26 & 27 of June 2023 represented the opportunity for the HABITABLE consortium to actively engage with stakeholders in processes for identifying approaches, regulatory and institutional frameworks, programs, and plans that shape existing legal and policy actions.

The primary objective of the Dialogue was to engage key stakeholders to discuss preliminary findings of the research conducted within the HABITABLE project and share perspectives about a human rights-based approach to human mobility related to climate change.

Second, taking advantage of the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), this event was also aimed at reaching a wide range of actors, experts, and practitioners to seek their views, raise awareness and assess policy solutions, recognizing the benefits of adopting a human rights perspective and a comprehensive approach to climate impacts and related migration and displacement.

The event was divided in two sessions:

A Technical session: June 26th, 2 pm – 6 pm, International Environment House 2

A Policy Dialogue: June 27th, 1 pm – 2 pm, Palais des Nations, also accessible ONLINE.

Participants discussed the main policy implications deriving from the relationship among habitability, climate change, and human rights, as well as options to manage migration and prevent displacement related to the adverse effects of global warming, with the objective of guaranteeing the exercise of fundamental freedoms.

June 26: Technical Session, International Environment House, Geneva
June 27: Policy Dialogue, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Program

  • 14:00

26 June: Technical Session

Time

Session

14:00-14:20

Opening of the Technical Session

  • François Gemenne, Director of the Hugo Observatory, University of Liège, Principal Investigator of the HABITABLE Project
  • Sergio Marchisio, Professor of International Law, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Iulia Sevciuc, Chief of Section a.i. for the Management of Social Transformations and Foresight Programme, UNESCO

Methodology and Preliminary Findings

14:20-14:40

Developing global international migration models for scenario-building

  • Karim Zantout, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Presentation and discussion

14:40-15:00

Long-term analysis of links between climate events and migration in Mali

  • Flore Gubert, Senior Researcher, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
  • Presentation and discussion

15:00-15:20

Initial results of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping in Ghana and Kenya

  • Diana Reckien, Associate Professor of Climate Change and Urban Inequalities, University of Twente
  • Presentation and discussion

15:20-15:40

Initial results of Focus Group Discussions on migration impacts

  • Harald Sterly, Senior Scientist, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
  • Presentation and discussion

15.40-16.00

Identifying policy options on climate migration

  • Gianfranco Nucera, Research Fellow, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Presentation and discussion

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

Overall and Cross-sectoral Issues

16:30-16:50

Intersectionality, human rights and migration in a changing climate

  • Sara Vigil, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
  • Presentation and discussion

16:50-17:10

Good practices in addressing climate-related human mobility

  • Dennis Tänzler, Director Head of Programme Climate Policy, adelphi
  • Presentation and discussion

17:10-17:30

Conclusion of the Technical Session

  • François Gemenne, Director of the Hugo Observatory, University of Liège, Principal Investigator of the HABITABLE Project
  • Concluding remarks and discussion

17:30-19:00

Cocktail
  • 13:00

27 June: Policy Session

13:00-13:10

Opening of the Policy Session

  • Predrag Avramovic, Minister Counsellor, Head of Humanitarian and Migration Section, European Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva
  • Atle Solberg, Head of the Secretariat, Platform on Disaster Displacement

13:10-13:50

Panel discussion on habitability, climate change and human rights

  • Lien Vandamme, Senior Campaigner, Loss & Damage Expert, Center for International Environmental Law
  • Samuel Lanwi, DPR of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
  • Sergio Marchisio, Professor of International Law at Sapienza University of Rome
  • Benjamin Schachter, Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

13:50-14:00

Conclusion of the Policy Dialogue

  • Dina Ionesco, Senior Advisor on Migration, Climate Vulnerable Forum, and Vulnerable 20 Group
  • François Gemenne, Director of the Hugo Observatory, University of Liège, Principal Investigator of the HABITABLE Project

Speakers

Document(s)

Concept Note & Program

Medias

HABITABLE Technical Session July 26 2023

HABITABLE aims to significantly advance our understanding of the current interlinkages between climate impacts and migration and displacement patterns, in order to better anticipate their future evolutions.

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Research

Outcomes

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 869395. The content reflects only the authors’ views, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.


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