Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program Presents
Where Can They Go? A Climate Migration Panel
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
BGIA, in collaboration with UNA-NY and The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, is excited to sponsor this special panel on climate migration issues.6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The guest panelists will present local, national, and global endeavors that are currently underway, including the first Federally-funded climate migration effort in the United States: the relocation of the indigenous people of the Isle de Jean Charles. The conversation is an international one. The panelists will discuss how lessons are being learned, ideas exchanged, and how all of this is now forming the basis for ongoing policies and decisions.
Please join us for a discussion with:
Ambassador Tareq Md. Ariful Islam, Deputy Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations
Dakota Fisher, Former Resilience Program Specialist Office of Community Development, Disaster Recovery Unit, State of Louisiana
Kobi Ruthenberg, Associate Director, ORG Permanent Modernity
Closing Remarks by Alexandia Villaseñor, Climate Activist and Co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike, Founder of Earth Uprising
Moderated by Risa Perlmutter Goldstein, Partner, The Goldstein Partnership, Architects & Planners
Events in the Chace Lecture Series are free and open to the public by RSVP: http://www.unanyc.org/events/2019/reservation_form_climate-panel.html
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://http://www.unanyc.org/events/2019/20190912_climate_panel.html.
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011