Climate Change Displacement Conference | Addressing Climate Displacement Globally and Locally

As part of the Climate Change Displacement Conference, held at HLS in October, Bonnie Docherty, senior clinical instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic, moderated a panel discussion titled, "Addressing Climate Displacement Globally and Locally," The panel included Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor of Law and director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at University of New South Wales (UNSW), and the leader of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Refugees & Migrants; Walter Kälin, a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of Bern, envoy of the chairmanship of the Nansen Initiative, and formerly Representative of the United Nations’ Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons; and Robin Bronen, a human rights attorney, senior research scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and co-founder and executive director of the Alaska Institute for Justice.
The panel discussion was part of a three-day conference sponsored by the International Human Rights Clinic, the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. The conference featured a Q&A with the former president of Ireland Mary Robinson and a number of panel discussions which examined challenges of climate change, human rights, and displacement, and efforts to address this emerging crisis in the wake of the Paris COP 21 agreement.