Amidst the intensifying and broad-based impacts of the climate crisis, it is necessary to connect demands for recognizing the rights of people displaced by the climate crisis and across international borders–through legal protections as climate refugees–to the transformational changes needed to materialize peoples' rights to stay home and thrive within inclusive, just, and climate-resilient communities.
Making this connection requires powerful and persuasive research tools and tactics that demystify the root causes of climate-induced displacement and clarify how to target them. Toward this end, this panel explores the Othering & Belonging Institute's new Climate Displacement and Resilience Database (to be released on Nov. 15) and its concept of the “Right to Stay,” and how these can strengthen connections among impacted communities, civil society, and policy and lawmakers.
This event series features members of the Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute providing an in-depth walkthrough of the Climate Displacement and Resilience Database and an elaboration of the “Right to Stay” as an organizing principle for climate justice, as defined by impacted communities across the Global South and Global North alike. The event will be moderated by Dr. Bruce Riordan, Director of the UC Berkeley Climate Change Network.
Speakers:
- Elsadig Elsheikh, Director of the Global Justice Program at OBI
- Basima Sisemore, Senior Researcher at the Global Justice Program at OBI
- Dr. Hossein Ayazi, Senior Policy Analyst at the Global Justice Program at OBI
- Dr. Bruce Riordan (moderator), Director of the Climate Change Network at UC Berkeley
