United Nations Refugee Agency:
Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
UNHCR Refugee Convention
Resources:
World Risk Report 2020: Forced Displacement and Migration
World Risk Report collection
World Bank: Forced Displacement
Examples:
The government of Kiritabi’s response to a changing climate
Shakeel Kazmi holds doctor of law (S.J.D. 2012) and master’s of law (LL.M. 2010) degrees in Environmental Law from the Pace University School of Law. He is also a graduate of the American University Washington College of Law (LL.M. 1994). He is an adjunct professor at NYU-Poly and has held visiting appointments at Wuhan University and Qingdao University in China as well as NYU Abu Dhabi. In addition to teaching climate change law and policy, Professor Kazmi has practiced law in New York for more than 23 years. He is also an advisor to the Ministry of Climate Change Pakistan and is actively involved in climate change treaty negotiations. In this role, he has attended the Green Climate Fund board of directors meetings in Seoul and Berlin. Professor Kazmi researches in the area of Climate Change, focusing on climate change displacement and renewable energy in developing countries. He is the author of Climate Change: Human Rights In The Times Of Climate Displacement [2012] and a co-author of Renewable Energy and Development, Case Study Analyses, and Environmental Law of the United Arab Emirates: A Comparative Study of Environmental Laws, Regulations and Policies of the United Arab Emirates (Comparative Environmental Law And Regulation, Nicholas A. Robinson, ed., Oceana Publications New York, 2011).
A corporation serves its shareholders. A democracy serves its citizens. Humanity needs a clean energy source that is cheaper than fossil fuels and politicians who cannot be bought. Let’s hope that both are possible.
Required viewing:
1991
Longest running oil spill in American History:
Solar is not without issues:
“The material I’ll be discussing is essentially chapter 3 of David Archer’s “Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast“. I certainly don’t expect students to get the book, but only mention it as a reference. Another popular scientific take on this is a very well written book “An Ocean of Air” by Gabrielle Walker. Chapter 3 tells the historical discovery of global warming, starting in 1754 with the discovery of “fixed air” (i.e., carbon dioxide) by Joseph Black in Edinburgh. She takes it all the way into the modern era, describing the essential physics without any equations.”
My research interests:
What does the natural variability of the atmosphere tell us about the Earth’s climate and how it will respond to anthropogenic forcing? How can simplified models help us understand the dynamics of the atmosphere? These two questions shape my research, the former sharpening my focus, the latter my modus operandi. I seek to ground comprehensive Earth System models in our theoretical understanding of atmospheric dynamics, with the goal of both better understanding the climate system and improving our ability to simulate and predict it. Comprehensive models play a vital role in climate research and are necessary for quantitatively predicting the response of the climate to anthropogenic forcing (for example, changes in carbon dioxide and stratospheric ozone). Unfortunately, the increasing complexity of these models has come at the expense of their transparency. I use idealized atmospheric models to form a bridge between theory and these complicated simulations. In particular, I’m interested in the role of the upper atmosphere in surface climate and develop idealized models of the stratosphere-troposphere system.
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