Madrid, Spain, 5 December 2019 - Yesterday, in the heart of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP25), the French Ambassador for Climate, Brigitte Collet presented the 2019 Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development (COAL) Art and Environment Prize…
Sint Maarten, 2-6 December 2019. The Caribbean, as one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change, holds its 11th Biannual Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM).…
Artistic duo Lena Dobrowolska and Teo Ormond-Skeaping were awarded the COAL Prize on Thursday for their project You never know, one day you too may become a refugee during a ceremony organized at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, in…
Art meets policy at the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 25) through the Platform on Disaster Displacement. The PDD has partnered with the COAL (Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development) Prize and DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys to bring the…
Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) Task Force on Displacement (TFD) Moving Forward Together: Averting, Minimizing and Addressing Displacement - The Second Phase of the Task Force on Displacement COP25 WIM Executive Committee and Task Force on Displacement Side Event Tuesday, 03…
Will you be in Madrid during the first two weeks of December 2019? Are you looking to learn more about how displacement relating to disasters or the adverse effects of climate change are being addressed? Here is a non-exhaustive list…
“Climate change is real and its adverse effects will lead to different forms of human mobility, but it does does not necessarily have to be a crisis ”, said Atle Solberg, Head of the Secretariat of the Platform on Disaster…
The Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) consists of a Steering Group, Advisory Committee, and Secretariat. However, several states who are not members of the PDD Steering Group have shown interest in its work. To reach out to such states and…
The Andean Community (CAN) is comprised of four large countries prone and vulnerable to a variety of natural hazards, including floods, volcanic and seismic activity and droughts. Disaster displacement is a reality in some of these countries. According to the…
Climate change and its impacts are experienced acutely in all parts of the world, irrevocably reshaping migration patterns. The adverse impacts of climate change have directly and indirectly contributed to the migration of thousands of people in Small Island Developing…
