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Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage online symposium with Farhana Sultana, Gabriela de Matos and Amali Tower on “Decolonising Climate Coloniality and Re-Centering Marginalised Voices and Knowledges”

Join us for an engaging workshop that delves into the complexities of “climate migrants,” a term that frequently appears in public discourse but is often misunderstood. This session will provide valuable insights into climate-induced migration through ...

Amali Tower moderates panel on the "Power of Storytelling". An all-day event in the margins of the United Nations High-Level Week bringing together global champion leaders.

“By speaking to people who are marginalized, you will better understand how the climate crisis actually erodes human rights and leads to and underpins displacement"

Hispanics in Philanthropy virtual screening of Somos Territorio: Voices of Climate Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean during NYC Climate Week and Panel Discussion

Mitigating the Real Costs of Climate Change: Climate Justice, Land Rights and Migration - panel speakers Amali Tower, Cassie Flynn (UNDP), Janene Yazzie (NDN Collective)

Amali Tower appeared in front of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, as part of its study entitled 'Canada's Approach to Africa'.

Amali Tower took part in a panel during the 2024 World Affairs Institute's event exploring climate intersections.

This expert panel convenes leading voices from diverse fields in the climate justice movement, ethics, technology, and policy to engage in insightful discour...

Film screening and panel discussion, hosted by Climate Refugees and The Loss & Damage Collaboration at the Ghana Pavilion during COP28.

Amali Tower participates in a segment on climate displacement during We Don't Have Time's COP28 broadcast.

Panel held at COP28, hosted by the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) at the UNOPS Pavilion.

Panel event with La Ruta del Clima and others, held in New York on 18 October 2023.

Amali Tower, speaker at CGI 2023 on Forced Migration and Climate Change

Local Action for a Global Crisis: Mitigating Climate’s Impact on Health with Amali Tower; Bill Weir, CNN; Caleb Dresser, Harvard; Michael Hill, Kentuckycare

In collaboration with the Faith Sector Community Preparedness Program and DOHMH, NYDIS hosts training summits for NYC clergy and lay leaders…

Scientist Benjamin Strauss, human rights advocate Amali Tower, and writer David Wallace-Wells will share their work on sea-level rise and climate-driven migration in the U.S. and around the globe.

Ideas to strengthen and bridge movements for climate refugee protections, climate reparations, and just transitions with Amali Tower, Climate Refugees; Hamza Hamouchene, Transnational Institute; Mizan Khan, ICCCAD; Ineza Umuhoza Grace, L&DYC and Hossein Ayazi, Othering & Belonging Institute.

This inaugural Tech for Humanity Summit, co-hosted by Virginia Tech University’s Tech for Humanity and New America PIT, will convene a diverse group of national and global leaders to grapple with questions of ethics, justice and human dignity in a tech...

We are very pleased to announce Amali Tower (Climate Refugees), Mukesh Kapila (University of Manchester) and Dorothea Hilhorst (Erasmus University) will join us as keynote speakers at the upcoming NCHS Humanitarian Futures conference.

Our panel of experts will discuss and help us understand why there is a migration crisis and what could and should be done about it.

Climate, Migration and Human Rights - panel with Amali Tower, Eskinder Negash, Filip Garza

Amali Tower was an invited speaker at the Columbia SIPA Leadership Dinner honoring Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger and new Professor of Practice Hillary Rodham Clinton

Join Harvard Business School's Student Sustainability Associates for an environmental justice panel discussion including speakers such as Amali Tower, Founder & Executive Director at Climate Refugees.

Lepage Center virtual discussion on Climate Change and Migration featuring Dr. Cristina Maria Garcia, Dr. Robert McLeman, and Climate Refugees Executive Director Amali Tower, moderated by Dr. Lynne Hartnett (Chair, Villanova University History Department)

Debate on Climate Change Response with Amali Tower & Patrick Brown

Join us for Amali Tower’s keynote lecture: “Global Governance Frameworks are Out of Step with Climate Change and the Dynamics of Displacement" convened by the Center for the Education of Women

On Tuesday, January 17, the Strauss Center at the University of Texas, Austin hosted Amali Tower, Founder and Executive Director of Climate Refugees. The talk was held at the at the LBJ School of Public Affairs

Every day vulnerable people are stripped of their rights, freedom and identity. They are victims of the environmental destruction being inflicted on our shared planet.

Amali Tower will present a keynote address at the 2022 AASHE Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE).

Alight hosts a discussion with Amali Tower of Climate Refugees on the major impact climate change has on displacement, and how it affects the communities we serve.

'Decolonial Climate Responses' - a panel discussion with Amali Tower, Erica Bower, Neeshad Shafi and Sophie Grig at Cambridge Union Society at the annual CCSF forum aimed at increasing awareness on climate change, sustainability and surrounding issues

Amali Tower, Climate Refuges, Taryn Higashi, Unbound Philanthropy and Luis Paiz Bekker, AFSC. Hosted by Hispanics in Philanthropy, Environmental Grantmakers Foundation & International Community Foundation

Join our Seminar theme panel “Climate Forced Displacement: There’s No Place Like Home”, a conversation with Amali Tower of Climate Refugees, Salote Soqo of UUSC, and Noella Prescod--our Seminar's Senior Youth Dean

Join ZBC for an Earth Day panel on climate migration - a view from & beyond the US border w/ Todd Miller, Jorge Cuellar, Ann Lopez, Jose Artiga. Moderated by Amali Tower

The 37th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium March 31- April 2, 2022 The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by EPIIC stu

Each year the Unitarian Universalist Office at the United Nations (UU@UN) hosts an Intergenerational Spring Seminar. The 2022 theme was Displacement and...

Bridging the Americas: Migration, Integration, Inclusion. Climate Migration with Allan Rock, Amali Tower, Susan B. Adamo.

Migration & Climate Change with Anna Palmer of Climate Refugees, Helena Olea of Allianza Americas, Karla Castillo. Moderated by Eliza Cava

Mozilla Festival 2022 - Climate Refugees-hosted discussion with Nik Evasco, Alma Maquitico, Todd Miller, Amali Tower

A panel discussion with Amali Tower, Sarah Kamel and Alea Mohamed at the University of Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada

The Center for Climate and Security is pleased and honored to announce that Dr. Daniel Y. Chiu, Ellen Laipson, Maureen Sullivan and Amali Tower have joined

COP26 Debrief & Outlook with Iain Keith, Climate Emergency Collaboration Group (CECG), Amali Tower, Climate Refugees, Teresa Lang, South Pole, Amir Azar, KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, Manel Avellá, Gunvor Group Ltd.

With panel speakers: Anna Palmer - Climate Refugees; Andre Dallas - People & Planet; Faith Clarke - Voice.Wales

Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on education that emphasizes close relationships with faculty.

Expert panel discussion with Amali Tower, Erol Yayboke (CSIS), Yumna Kamel (Earth Refuge), Todd Miller

Amali Tower joins Bobby Peek (Groundwork), Brenna Two Bears (Climate Access) and other guest speakers at EGA's annual Fall Retreat Block Party

Panel: Readying Communities for Climate Disaster & Displacement with Amali Tower & Lolita Jackson, moderated by WiLL Director Rikkia Ramsey

Join Amali Tower (Founder & Executive Director, Climate Refugees) and Mayesha Alam, Ph.D. (Senior Fellow, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research) as they unpack the complex issue of climate migration and point us towards the solutions.

At the opening keynote of our Second Annual Summit, we welcomed Amali Tower, Executive Director of the nonprofit Climate Refugees, to speak on how climate c...

Amali Tower of Climate Refugees, Janet MacGillivray of Seeding Sovereignty, Max Moinian of Future Earth, Moderated by Sophia Li

Amali Tower is an expert contributor alongside Saleemul Huq, Mary Robinson, David Boyd & more

IRAP, 350.org and ACLU Southern California Convening on Climate Displacement

POP Festival 2021: Amali Tower & Felicia Rangel-Samponaro on US border policy & forced migration in a changed climate.

Amali Tower speaks at CER-Migracions Environmental Migration Week with Dina Ionesco of IOM and Juan Carlos Mendez, Platform for Disaster Displacement.

Amali Tower, Climate Refugees; Harjeet Singh, CAN International; Laurie Schoeman, Community Enterprise Partners Inc; Greg Guannel, Green Caribbean Center

Climate Migration panel discussion with Amali Tower, Professor Maxine Burkett & Professor Susan Martin.

Amali Tower, Climate Refugees; Nisha Agarwal, IRAP; Yumna Kamel & Stephanie Nader, Earth Refuge

Amali Tower, Climate Refugees and Prayanka Jain, International Lawyer on the movements that are addressing climate change and human displacement and international legal instruments to assist climate change refugees

Council of Europe’s World Forum for Democracy, panel, “The New Climate Migrants.”

Climate Refugees: Finding Recognition and Establishing Accountability. Panel speakers: Amali Tower, Climate Refugees, Dina Ionesco, IOM, Caroline Zickgraf, Hugo Observatory, Janice Cantieri, Journalist

In this conversation with Amali Tower (Founder and Executive Director, Climate Refugees Founder, SIPA Class of ‘09), moderated by Dale Buscher (Vice President for Programs at the Women’s Refugee Co...

Professional Development Panel: Insights from the field and career advice. Speakers: Climate Refugees, Concern Worldwide, Catholic Medical Missions Board

Meet the Changemakers: Amali Tower, Founder and Director of Climate Refugees; Tina Tchen, CEO Time’s Up, Former Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama

Panel Moderator, “The Impacts of Enforced Migration Among the Most Vulnerable Communities” - Panelists: Hindou Ibrahim, Jackie Schaeffer, Jannie Staffansson, Genevieve Jiva.

Global Philanthropy Forum 2020. Expert Panelists, Amali Tower & Maxine Burkett, moderated by Steve Trent of Environmental Justice Foundation

Join Global Women in Leadership (GWL) for a panel discussion with Devon Cone and Kayly Ober, Refugees International, Kayly Ober, Amali Tower, Climate Refugees. Meaghan Parker, Society of Environmental Journalists, Moderator.

Climate Refugees provided the directors with legal background and subject matter expertise on refugees, migration, displacement and evolving policy conversations on climate-induced mobility.

Educational programs that help students understand the world.

In light of the move to online learning, the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs is introducing an online series focused on…

The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) is an innovative multidisciplinary center that studies the social, economic, environmental, and political dimensions of international migration.

Keynote: “Climate Change & Migration: Policy Challenges.” Renovar a Mouraria, Lisbon, Portugal.

Join Truman Center on the margins of the UN General Assembly during Climate Week for a panel discussion with Amali Tower, Climate Refugees, Dina Ionesco, Head of Migration, Environment & Climate Change, IOM, Gregory Maniatis, Director, International Migration Initiative, OSF.

Guest lecture for Dr. Marcus King, John O. Rankin Associate Professor of International Affairs; expert on climate and security

Georgetown University Symposium on Climate Change, Conflict & Gender with President Mary Robinson.

Symposium on the Legal Effects of Environmental Destruction on Human Rights and Migration

Panelists: Amali Tower, Climate Refugees; Atle Solberg, Platform on Disaster Displacement; Tore Furevik, University of Bergen; Kees van der Geest, UNUEHS

Keynote: Climate Change, Refugees & Conflict

Legal and situational briefing on climate displacement to journalists covering climate and environment

Guest Lecture, on climate change and displacement in urban and rural centers - Copenhagen, Denmark

Guest Lecture on Lake Chad Basin Field Mission, SIPA, Columbia University

Speaker: Amali Tower, Founder and Executive Director of Climate Refugees, and SIPA Alumna ('09) Amali Tower will discuss the latest report "Shrinking Options: The Nexus Between Climate Change, Displacement and Security in the Lake Chad Basin", which e...

Organized by Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN associate director, one of the report's main authors. Speakers: Stephen Hammer, head of climate policy, World Bank; Expert panel moderated by CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy: Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Craig Spencer from the Mailman School of Public Health, Sarah Rosengaertner, Columbia's Global Policy Initiative, Amali Tower, Climate Refugees, Richard Balme, SciencesPo