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

  • 26 June 2023
  • 27 June 2023
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This Policy Dialogue represents 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 is 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 is 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 will be 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

Participants will discuss 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.

A participatory approach will be adopted by allowing enough time and room for the audience to intervene, share views and comments, and ask questions to the speakers. The event will be conducted in English.

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 Using qualitative interviews to capture human rights aspects of climate migration

–       Diogo Serraglio, Research Analyst, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

–       Presentation and discussion
14:40-15:00 Developing global international migration models for scenario-building

–       Karim Zantout, Postdoctoral Researcher, PIK or Jacob Schewe, Senior Researcher, PIK (TBC)

–       Presentation and discussion
15:00-15:20 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
15:20-15:40 Initial results of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping in Ghana and Kenya (TBC)

–       Diana Reckien, Associate Professor of Climate Change and Urban Inequalities, University of Twente

–       Presentation and discussion
15:40-16:00 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
16.00-16.20 Identifying policy options on climate migration

–       Gianfranco Nucera, Research Fellow, Sapienza University of Rome

–       Presentation and discussion
16:20-16:50 Coffee break
Overall and Cross-sectoral Issues
16:50-17:10 Intersectionality, human rights and migration in a changing climate

–       Sara Vigil, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

–       Presentation and discussion
17:10-17:30 Good practices in addressing climate-related human mobility

–       Emily Wright O’Kelly, Consultant, adelphi or Dennis Tänzler, Director and Head of Programme Climate Policy, adelphi (TBC)

–       Presentation and discussion
17:30-18:00 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
  • 13:00

27 June: Policy Session
13:00-13:10 Opening of the Policy Session

–       Václav Bálek, Chair of the Human Rights Council (TBC)

–       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, Center for International Environmental Law

–       Sergio Marchisio, Professor of International Law at Sapienza University of Rome

–       Samuel Lanwi, DPR of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

–       Benjamin Schachter, Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
13:50-14:00 Concluding remarks and discussion

–       François Gemmene, Director of the Hugo Observatory, University of Liège, Principal Investigator of the HABITABLE Project

Speakers

Document(s)

Concept Note & Provisional Program

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.

About

Research

Outcomes

Other

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.