International Protection for People Displaced Across Borders in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Practical Toolkit

Event Details

As the impacts of climate change and disasters affect the displacement of people worldwide, legal practitioners and decision-makers are increasingly grappling with whether, and how, the impacts of climate change and disasters may substantiate or support an international protection claim. To assist with this task, a first-of-its-kind global resource has been developed by leading academics, in collaboration with UNHCR, to provide principled and practical guidance.

Join two of the authors of International Protection for People Displaced across Borders in the context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Practical Toolkit to learn more about this burgeoning area of law. Combining principled legal analysis with practical examples and sample case law, this session will help lawyers and decision-makers to better understand when, how and why people may have a valid claim for refugee status or subsidiary protection in the context of climate change and disasters.

This event is organised by Refugee Legal Support and hosted by the British Institute of international and Comparative Law (BIICL).

Chair

Emily Rowe, Climate Emergency Working Group, Refugee Legal Support

Speakers:

• Prof. Jane McAdam AO, Scientia Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
• Prof. Geoff Gilbert, Sérgio Vieira de Mello Professor of International Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, University of Essex
• Cornelis (Kees) Wouters, Senior Refugee Law Advisor, UNHCR