Workshop: Governing Climate Mobilities – 15 Years After the Cancun Agreement

Workshop: Governing Climate Mobilities – 15 Years After the Cancun Agreement 


On 27th and 28th May 2025, the Platform for Sustainable Development (SDGs) of the University for Continuing Education Krems hosted the workshop “Governing Climate Mobilities 15 Years After the Cancun Agreement”, which brought together climate mobilities scholars focussing on the governance, law, and policy of climate mobilities as part of the Belmont Forum PHOENIX project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The stage was set by two keynote presentations: first, on discourses on climate mobilities in the international climate negotiations from Prof. Angela Oels of Augsburg University; and second on international practitioner perspectives from Dina Ionesco of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 14 panelists and 5 discussants then delved into different aspects of climate mobilities governance in more depth across 5 panels:


    

  1. Existing policies, frameworks and approaches;
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  2. National policy and governance;
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  3. Local and indigenous governance strategies;
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  4. Challenges of multi-level governance;
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  5. Policy discourses.
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Workshop convenor Dr. Sarah Haider-Nash summed up the two days of discussions in her closing remarks as “enriching, engaging, collaborative and challenging in the best way – a way that pushes us to keep developing our thinking in this area and work together to take the literature in new directions”.


Photo: Carl Hoffmann