Bonn, Germany, 4 June 2014 – Research and Evidence on Climate Change Related Population Mobility The most recent IPCC report indicates that warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Many of the observed…
Bonn, Germany, 4 June 2014 – Side Event: Disasters, Climate Change and Displacement: Regional dynamics of human mobility in West Africa Side Event The Governments of Norway and Switzerland, as the Chairmanship…
Bonn/Nairobi/Oslo- 21 May 2014 – PRESS RELEASE: Extreme weather drives displacement from the Horn of Africa UN University and Norwegian Refugee Council: Thousands of people at the Horn of Africa are at…
Stockholm, Sweden, 14 May 2014 – The Nansen Initiative: Cross-Border Displacement in the Context of Disasters Panelists ‘Building consensus on a protection agenda: common themes and main insight of the consultative process…
Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland, 14 -15 April 2014 – Nansen Initiative Consultative Committee Workshop The two day workshop brought together around 50 Nansen Initiative Consultative Committee members, invited experts, representatives of the Chairmanship, the…
New-York and Geneva, 4 April 2014 – A dialogue with Prof. Walter Kaelin, Envoy of the Chairmanship of the Nansen Initiative Prof. Walter Kaelin (former Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human…
Need for New Tools to Deal with Disaster Displacement 2 April 2014 – Norwegian Refugee Council Professor Walter Kälin argued for a need to better protect people who are forced to flee…
Creating New Norms on Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Displacement: International Developments 5 March 2014, Refuge, Vol 29, No 2 – Jane McAdam This article provides an account of attempts at the…
A Patient Envoy 1 February 2014 – Marianne Alfsen/Felix Media Walter Kaelin believes in power of people who set down and and talk it out when faced with challenges. Now he is talking…
How to Make Climate Migration a Solution, Not a Problem 16 January 2014 – Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation The phrase “climate migrants” tends to conjure up images of people forced from…
