Climate Migrants: How Climate Change is Shifting the Global Demographic - 11/13/2019

Managing the Planet Panel Series: November 13, 2019
Climate Migrants: How Climate Change is Shifting the Global Demographic

Join SoGES for a panel discussion on the intersection between climate change and human, plant and animal migration patterns. There is growing realization among researchers, policy makers, and the wider public that the impacts of climate change will have a large effect on global migration patterns in the coming decades. While Migration is an adaptation strategy for humans and certain animals that follow their habitats, these shifts are slower for plants and for those that have nowhere left to go. According to the report, Groundswell – Preparing for Internal Climate Migration, climate migration will likely rise through 2050 and then accelerate; the challenges are certain, but what are the opportunities if we act now?

Our CSU panelists discuss how climate change is shifting the global demographic of humans, plants and animals.

Panelists:
John Sanderson: Center for Collaborative Conservation
Amy Charkowski: Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
Ed Barbier: Department of Economics
Pankaj Trivedi: Department of Bioagriculture Sciences and Pest Management
Moderator: Gene Kelly, SoGES Faculty Research Liaison, Deputy Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Dean of Extension.