CNN’s recently released dramatic images projecting how many major cities around the globe will be impacted by two degrees, or four degrees, of global warming. 760 million people’s homes could be submerged. DS hopes these projections will bring world leaders to adopt strong reductions in their CO2 emissions at the Paris Climate talks and beyond, and that action on climate displacement will finally get the political attention it deserves. Click here to view the images.
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Commemorating 10 Years of Action - the 2016 DS Annual Report
Ten Years of Action It is hard to believe that DS has now been active for ten busy and eventful years. This has been quite a ride for our (intentionally) small and flexible organisation, and one involving an wonderful team of dedicated HLP experts from around the world working in a range of displacement hotspots. From developing the Peninsula Principles, to spearheading global efforts to obtain land for climate displaced people, developing IDP return designs in Timor Leste, Somalia, Colombia, Bhutan and many more, carrying on-site investigations in Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Panama, Kiribati, Bangladesh and other climate change-affected areas, to conducting HLP rights analysis and restitution design work in Myanmar, advising the UN on HLP issues in Syria, publishing several books, inaugurating the world’s first law school courses on climate displacement, and writing DS reports, producing films, building homes for climate displaced families in Chittagong, and so much more, this first DS decade has been an exhilarating one. Since our founding on 28 December 2006, DS has worked in some 35 countries to assist in finding rights-based solutions to forced displacement in all of its forms. Besides our legal experts, we have had the honour of working with villagers, community…...
DS deeply dismayed at the removal of all climate displacement provisions in the draft climate treaty
DS is dismayed at the systematic removal of all climate displacement provisions in the draft climate treaty just weeks before the treaty is considered in Paris, in an article just published by the Guardian. DS has received countless calls and emails from our partners across the globe who are already struggling with climate displacement worried that they again will be forgotten by the world. We will keep advocating for the return of climate displacement issues in the treaty in our discussions with governments in the coming months, but our hopes for a truly positive Paris treaty are waning quickly. You can read the Guardian article here....
DS Director Interviewed on the 70th Anniversary of the UDHR - Listen here!
DS Director Scott Leckie was interviewed on 10 December 2018 on Australian Radio station 3CR on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and how human rights are affected by the effects of climate change. Have a listen here: https://audio.3cr.org.au/3cr/beyond-zero-community/2018/12/10/1700/201812101700_beyond-zero-community_64.mp3...
DW interviews Scott Leckie: Picture perfect, or is it?
Leading international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, interviews DS Director Scott Leckie on his latest thoughts on the uncertain future of small island nations and the widespread impacts of climate change. Click here and listen in from 10.40 minutes to hear Scott talking....
