Ronan Toal and Ubah Dirie to speak in Climate Mobility & Legal Innovation Programme

The Climate Mobility & Legal Innovation Programme (CLIP) aims to bring together legal practitioners, scholars, and frontline advocates in cross-disciplinary collaboration, equipping them with the tools to develop solutions-driven legal strategies at the intersection of climate change and human mobility.

Garden Court’s Ronan Toal and Ubah Dirie will be speaking in the CLIP programme, scheduled to take place from late September 2026.

Ronan Toal will speak in Session 3, ‘Local Battles, Global Impact: Domestic Climate Mobility Litigation’. Ronan’s practice covers all areas of asylum and immigration. He has a detailed knowledge and understanding of the complex and changing interrelationship of international and European law, domestic legislation, immigration rules and policies and judicial decisions that make immigration and asylum a complicated area of law. He successfully represented a Filipino national in a significant human rights appeal before the First-tier Tribunal, which won on grounds relating to climate change.

Ubah Dirie will speak in Session 5, ‘Meeting the Evidentiary Burden: Addressing Causation Issues and Documenting Injury in Climate Mobility Cases’. Ubah is recognised as a tenacious and client focused advocate who specialises in advice, representation and advocacy in all areas of immigration, asylum, nationality, EU free movement, deportation and detention. She regularly appears in the First tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal.

Garden Court’s Environmental Law & Climate Justice Team have a unique multi-disciplinary approach. Members are perfectly placed to provide representation and advice on the crossover between environmental justice, human rights & immigration law, which includes domestic and international migration policies.

About CLIP

The programme is co-hosted by Earth Refuge and the Climate Mobility Justice Academy of Beyond Climate Collaborative, in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD), the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study University of London, the Pace Haub Environmental Law Program, and the Human Rights Centre at UC Berkeley.

CLIP is a focused, practitioner-driven legal education programme designed to close the protection gaps facing people displaced by disasters, climate change and environmental degradation, and aims to equip the lawyers, advocates, judges and scholars working to close them.

By unpacking how climate change, disasters, environmental degradation, and human mobility intersect across immigration, environmental, climate, human rights and international law, CLIP aims to create a space for co-production of legal knowledge across historical, doctrinal, jurisdictional and community-rooted perspectives.

CLIP are accepting applications to take part in the programme until 20 August 2026.