[We have the following announcement. DRE]
The next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and History Global Workshop will take place on 3 October at 11am UTC. Eddie Kola will be presenting his draft paper "Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees":
Many of the people who enjoy the least freedom of mobility in the world today, are also those most susceptible to the deleterious effects of climate change. And yet, neither those who must flee their homes due to urgent environmental catastrophes, nor economic migrants whose livelihoods are destroyed by the climate crisis, enjoy any protection under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. The plight of these so-called climate refugees are only set to worsen as time goes on. Through a detailed contextualization of the development of international refugee law, and the impact refugees have had on the development of the modern passport system, this paper will use historical lessons to make normative arguments that existing legal instruments must be amended and new ones negotiated, to address what is undoubtedly going to soon become an age of climate refugees.
Ben Richardson will provide commentary. If you would like to attend the session, please email Susan Bartie (susan.bartie[at]anu.edu.au) or David Schorr (dschorr[at]tauex.tau.ac.il) and they will send you the paper and a link.
