Climate, Conflict, & Refugees: Examining the Impact of Environmental Change on Human Security

Jun 13, 2017 | Stimson Center
Washington, DC
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From rising sea levels to crowded megacities, environmental change is spurring new trends in human mobility — and posing new challenges to human security. As the Trump administration weighs its new approach to the Paris climate accord, join the Stimson Center and Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy for a strategic conversation analyzing the global risks presented to human security by environmental change, as well as the findings and recommendations from the recently released report — New Challenges to Human Security: Environmental Change and Human Mobility.

Organizer: Stimson Center

When: Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Where: Stimson Center, 1211 Connecticut Avenue, 8th Floor, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036

Featuring:
Sally Yozell, Senior Associate and Director of the Environmental Security Program, Stimson Center
Kelly M. McFarland, Director of Programs and Research, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
Anne C. Richard, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration; Affiliate, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Additional Speakers To Be Confirmed.