Free Hybrid Seminar – Climate Change Immigration: Protection and Human Rights Claims

Climate change is an increasingly significant driver of migration.  The aim of this seminar will be 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.

Reserve your online ticket

Please fill in the form below to reserve your online ticket. In-person places are fully booked.

If you have booked an online ticket, we will send joining details to everyone who has signed up on the day of the event. Please check your junk inbox if you have not received the link by Thursday 16th January 2025. If you have not received the link by 3pm on Thursday 16th January 2025, and it is not in your junk inbox, please email webinars@gclaw.co.uk.