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How to Escape the Nexus of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement | From Fragility to Stability

11/14/24 • 28 min

Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters

Today’s episode is produced in partnership with the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration for a series that examines what works to improve the well-being of people in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings. CGIAR is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security.

We are calling this series “From Fragility to Stability” and in today’s episode I host a roundtable discussion with three experts about how to escape the nexus of climate change, conflict and forced displacement

Ms. Jana Birner, Associate Partnerships Officer in the Office of the Special Advisor on Climate Action for the UN Refugee Agency

Barthelemy Mwanza, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who works with the Global Refugee Youth Network

Alessandro Craparo, a Bioclimatologist with CGIAR

Ms. Jana Birner, Associate Partnerships Officer in the Office of the Special Advisor on Climate Action for the UN Refugee Agency

Barthelemy Mwanza, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who works with the Global Refugee Youth Network

Alessandro Craparo, a Bioclimatologist with CGIAR

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