An emerging legal framework for the protection of ‘climate change induced migrants’? - Avenues taken and roads ahead

Activity: Talks and presentationsConference presentations

Description

Experts Roundtable: Exploring Climate Change, Human Rights & Forced Displacement: Is international law and governance prepared to protect forcebly displaced people? How can bridges between human rights and other legal hybrid approaches or other disciplines be built in order to understand the impact of climate change and some of its consequence on forced displacement? Exploring the linkage between forced displacement and adaptation and the mechanism of loss and damage under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, could a Protocol to the UNFCCC based on adaptation be a possible avenue? Hosted by: Aalborg University, Department of Law, Aalborg (AAU) & Aalborg University, Department of Culture and Global Studies – Global Refugee Studies, AAU Copenhagen.
Period10 Nov 2017
Event titleCOP 23 - United Nations Climate Change Conference, Bonn, Germany Side-event - Exploring Climate Change, Human Rights & Forced Displacement: Advancing Law & Governance Contributions to Climate Action under the Paris Agreement Fiji/Bonn Climate Law and Governance Day 2017 During the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23), hosted by Fiji in Bonn, Germany
Event typeConference
Conference numberCOP 23
Location53113 Bonn, GermanyShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • Migration
  • Refugees
  • Global Compacts
  • Roads ahead