Panel IV: Addressing Environmental Refugees' Needs: Main Legal Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
Moderated discussion – Chaired by Dr. Carmen Pérez González, Vice-Dean for International Relations, Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences, UC3M; Associate Professor of Public International Law at UC3M (accred. as Full Professor); UNESCO Chair “Education Linkage through International Sports” (ELIS). * Climate change and non-refoulement, Dr. Susana Borrás Pentinat, Associate Professor of International public law and International Relations; Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Law Research Group “Territory, Citizenship and Sustainability” /CEDAT Institute for Research in Sustainability, Climate Change and Energy Transition (IU-RESCAT), Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain. *Environmental degradation and displacements in Latin America: towards a new customary rule?, Dr. Justo Corti Varela, Associate Professor of Public International Law, UNED; Principal Investigator–Jean Monnet Action on European Climate Change Law, Spain. * Climate refugees and humanitarian action, Mr. Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán, Deputy Director of Humanitarian Programmes of the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation, Fordham University, New York, USA. * The EU response to the displacements from the Sahel, Dr. Gloria Fernández Arribas, Associate Professor of Public International Law, Universidad Pablo Olavide; Principal Investigator–Proyecto FEDER Climate Change and Displacements in the Sahel, Junta de Andalucía, Spain. * Women and Girls in International and Internal Displacement Caused by Environmental Degradation: Some Challenges and Responses at the UN level, Dr. Ruth Abril Stoffels, Associate Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Equality Unit, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain. * Artificial Intelligence and Refugee Law: Exploring the Benefits and Risks of AI in the Face of Climate Change and Environmental Damage, Mr. Javier Jaramillo, Trustee of the World Law Foundation, Lawyer and Manager at Pro-Corp.