Climate change: migration and displacement Part 5/9

Climate Change: migration and displacement
Part 5/9

4-5:30pm, 23 June, 2009

Rising sea levels and the growing number of natural disasters provoked by climate change are already driving migration and displacement. By 2020, climate change is predicted to trigger the movement of tens of millions
of people. The world is already struggling to assist and protect close to 40 million refugees internally displaced persons uprooted by conflict or persecution. How will the international community manage several times that figure in the near future? What laws or rights will ensure their protection? What funds will provide for their assistance?

Craig Johnstone, Deputy UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Walter Kälin, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General, IOM

Moderated by Nisha Pillai, BBC World News

In kind partnership with UNHCR

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• kofi annan
• climate change
• geneva
• Nisha Pillai
• Walter Kälin
• Craig Johnstone
• Ndioro Ndiaye
• migration
• displacement
• global humanitarian forum