Here is the recorded webcast from the panel discussion last week entitled “Emerging Policy Perspectives on Human Mobility in a Changing Climate”. It was put on by the UN University Office at the UN New York during Climate Week in NYC. The three objectives of the panel were to increase public awareness about the impact of climate change on human migration and displacement, identify key patterns in research, and identify the most urgent policy issues that are emerging.

This first panel of two goes for about an hour and twenty minutes. The speakers included:

Susan F. Martin – Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Koko Warner – Head of the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer – Chief of the Policy

Development and Studies Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Thomas Loster – Chairman Munich Re Foundation

Frank Laczko – Head of Research, International Organization of Migration (IOM)

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Source: UNU-ONY