An SEI seminar with Nina Hall, Hertie School of Global Governance, Berlin.

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This seminar is on Nina Hall's new book "How Refugee, Migration, and Development Organizations Respond to Climate Change." This book addresses a critical, but neglected question: how are our international humanitarian, development and migration organizations adapting to climate change? How are their mandates changing?

Climate change is predicted to lead to an increase in natural and humanitarian disasters with developing countries being most vulnerable. These disasters may trigger new forms of migration and displacement. Although scholars have examined the complexity and fragmentation of the climate change regime, and identified various regime interplays, they have not focused on how development, migration and humanitarian actors are dealing with climate change.

Yet these institutions have a leading role to play in assisting developing countries to adapt to climate change, particularly as there is no new international climate adaptation organization. It is imperative to understand if and how our existing institutions are taking up climate change, and what the ramifications are for their existing mandates.

This book focuses on three institutions: the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Organization for Migration. All three were designed in the post-World War Two era in response to the devastating effects of war, and none was given a mandate for climate change or environmental issues. This book traces their responses to climate change in their rhetoric, policy, structure, operations and overall mandate change.

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