(Re)Setting a U.S. Policy for Climate Mobility

This expert roundtable undergirds a U.S. policy playbook on climate mobility — reflecting on lessons from the international sphere, centering impacted communities, and kicking off a series to build a coalition around this policy agenda.

In the midst of daily assaults on immigrant rights, massive climate-related displacement, and the dearth of affirmative policy ideas commensurate to protection needs, we strategize around a U.S. policy agenda on climate mobility to expand meaningful legal protections to climate-displaced people seeking safety and permanence in the United States.

Watch the roundtable here.

Speakers:

Moderated by the International Refugee Assistance Project

• Rricha Mathur deCant — Senior Director of Policy and Climate
• Hannah Flamm — Director, Immigration Solutions Accelerator
• Kate Guy — Senior Climate Fellow, IRAP / Columbia University

Presented By: 

The International Refugee Assistance Project, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Climate Refugees, Global Refuge, Global Strategic Litigation Council, Haitian Bridge Alliance, Human Rights First,  National Partnership for New Americans, Natural Resources Defense Council, Refugees International, and U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.