Wednesday, June 4, 11 a.m. Eastern
With climate-driven migration accelerating globally, governments, businesses and civil society must unite behind bold, coordinated and proactive leadership and solutions.
The World Refugee & Migration Council (WRMC) is joining this urgent global effort, bringing together world-leading experts and institutions across public, private and civil society sectors in support of a concrete action plan that is rights-based and politically viable.
In the lead-up to World Environment Day, join us June 4 at 11 A.M. Eastern for a conversation on global climate-induced displacement, and what we can do about it.
This virtual event will feature insights from:
Catherine McKenna, former Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Chair of the UN High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Emissions Commitments. Founder of Climate and Nature Solutions, McKenna partners with governments, corporations, and financial institutions to scale practical climate and nature-based solutions.
Claire Trottier, Acting Executive Director and Board Member of the Trottier Family Foundation, a leading philanthropic force in climate action, having committed $100 million to the Clean Economy Fund, which focuses on cross-sector collaboration in addressing climate challenges.
Matthew Scott, a global leader on climate-related migration and displacement, and Head of Human Rights and the Environment at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, driving human-rights-based approaches to climate mobility.
WRMC Members and authors of the Action Plan Professor James Hathaway, Victor Lal and Warda Shazadi Meighen will lead a strategic discussion on the components of the WRMC’s Responding to Climate-Induced Transnational Migration: An Action Plan for:
- Enabling safe, cross-border relocation pathways for those with no internal solutions
- Designing and funding, using international climate finance, models for regional cooperation to expand reception capacity
- Advancing a global legal shift to protect climate-displaced persons as de facto stateless individuals
James C. Hathaway is the Degan Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He works in the field of public international law, with a focus on international human rights law, international queer rights, and international refugee law.
Victor Lal is founder and executive director of Haven (findhaven.org). He has managed refugee resettlement to Canada since 2017 and has worked on the frontlines of the Ukrainian, Syrian and Palestinian crises.
Warda Shazadi Meighen is a partner at Landings LLP, where she practices immigration and refugee law. She is a board member of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and an adjunct professor of refugee law at the University of Toronto faculty of law. She is recognized as a leading lawyer in Canada under 40.
