This hybrid seminar was brought to you by the Garden Court Chambers Immigration and Climate Justice Teams.
| Date: | Thursday 16 January 2025 |
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| Time: | 5.30-7.30pm, followed by drinks for those joining in-person |
| Venue: | Chambers & Online |
| Cost: | Free |
| Areas of Law: | Administrative and Public Law, Immigration Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice |
Climate change is an increasingly significant driver of migration. The aim of this seminar was to introduce and discuss the ways in which the effects of climate change may be identified and relied on in the making of protection and human rights claims.
Speakers
Ubah Dirie (Chair), barrister at Garden Court Chambers.
Ronan Toal, barrister at Garden Court Chambers, will talk about introducing climate change into protection and human rights claims.
Professor David Cantor, PhD, founder and Director of the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with 25 years’ experience of research, advice and advocacy on refugee and IDP law and policy. He will speak on International Protection, Disasters and Climate Change
Yumna Kamel, co-founder and Executive Director of Earth Refuge, a legal think tank dedicated to climate change migration and a joint initiator of the Climiglaw database of cases concerned with climate change and immigration. She is also the Senior Legal Education Officer at the migration justice charity Right to Remain. She will speak about the database and how it can be used in climate migration cases.
Emily Rowe, Chair of the Climate Emergency Working Group at Refugee Legal Support and a founder member of the Immigration Climate Collective. She was recently a delegate at COP29 in Azerbaijan and she aims to share some reflections on the COP process and climate related migration.
