Online Q&A: Covid-19, climate change and migration: 14th May at 3pm BST

Online Q&A session

14th May at 3pm BST

How does a city in lockdown deal with a sudden climate-driven disaster like a typhoon? The measures needed to cope with a sudden episode of displacement – such as mass emergency shelters – are exactly the opposite of those required to contain the spread of Covid-19.

Join Alex Randall, who leads our work on the connections between climate change and migration, in a webinar in which he will be answering questions on how the coronavirus pandemic is colliding with current patterns of climate-linked migration and displacement on 14th May at 3pm BST. To set the context, he will begin the webinar with a 20 minute overview of the links between these connected crises.

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Alex advises a number of key international agencies and governments on their responses to climate-linked migration and displacement. Alex has also served on the steering group of the Nansen Initiative and Platform on Disaster Displacement.

Alex has written extensively on climate change and migration for the Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, New Internationalist, Prospect and numerous other outlets. He is the author of a number of book chapters focusing on the connections between climate change and the rights of refugees and migrants.

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Image: Women weather the microburst in Ber’aano Woreda in Somali region of Ethiopia (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by UNICEF Ethiopia