Listen to hear about a decade's major advances, and enduring challenges, in protecting people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change.
In a podcast out today, Walter Kälin, Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement, reflects on his 10 years at the frontlines of the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda.
In October 2015, 109 states endorsed the Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the context of Disasters and Climate Change (‘Protection Agenda’), providing a toolbox of concrete policy options and proposing a series of recommendations for future work.
The Protection Agenda was the result of the Nansen Initiative, a state-led process to address the protection needs of people displaced across borders in the context of disasters and climate change.
The Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) was established in 2016 to carry on the work of the Nansen Initiative and help put its recommendations into practice.
In this podcast, Kälin, who was formerly Envoy of the Nansen Initiative, chats with the Kaldor Centre's Professor Jane McAdam AO about the major advances, and enduring challenges, in protecting people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change.
The podcast is part of our Climate Mobility Hub’s new blog, Nansen Initiative + 10, produced in partnership with the Platform on Disaster Displacement and UNHCR.
Listen to 'Reflections from the frontlines: 10 years of protecting people displaced in the context of disasters' now.
For more, visit the UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.