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Environmental Rights and Climate-Caused Migration

October 23, 2019
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
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WJW 103

This event is co-sponsored with Rightslink. This event will focus on the intersection of human rights and climate change, discussing the development of international law and policy on this subject, as well as methods to address consequences such as climate-forced migration. John Knox, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment and current Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, and Ama Francis, a Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia, will be speaking on the panel moderated by Professor Michael Burger. 

Non-pizza lunch will be served.