How should policymakers respond to the reality and future prospect of vast populations being displaced and relocated in an era of global heating? With climate change looming, anxiety over immigration from the Global South is increasingly fuelled by apocalyptic fears of ecological breakdown. Our publication „Climate Justice and Migration. Mobility, Development, and Displacement in the Global South“ offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between climate change and human migration, questioning the pessimistic prisms of ‘security’ and market-oriented approaches to ‘adaptation’ that currently guide policy. In a world increasingly shaped by climate instability and inequality, the contributors make an impassioned call for the incorporation of justice within frameworks of environmental and migration governance.
Welcome by Co-editor Kirsten Maas-Albert, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin Introduction by Claudia Roth, Vice-President of the German Bundestag, Alliance 90/The Greens Authors’ talk moderated by co-editor Ali Nobil Ahmad with: Avidan Kent, University of East Anglia, UK, and Christiane Fröhlich, GIGA, Germany, and Joyce Melcar Tan, lawyer, Client Earth, UK/Philippines
Comments and perspectives from Erik Marquardt, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA, introduced by Anna Schwarz, Heinrich Böll Foundation - European Union, Brussels |