Following on from the debut screening of EJF’s new film on climate change and migration in Bangladesh, Trent also reiterated the increasingly accepted analysis that most displacement is internal rather than international. He warned the EU that “this is not about ‘Fortress Europe’” - that tightening border controls is not an appropriate response to this humanitarian crisis.
Read EJF’s new briefing on climate change and migration The seminar was held in the European Parliament by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats. Other speakers included Mrs Azeb Girmai representing ENDA, who outlined the situation in Ethiopia; the Climate Change Attache for the Hungarian Presidency; and representatives from the UNHCR, International Law and Human Rights Programme of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), and from the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability and Adaption Section at the UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).
The panels were chaired by MEPs Vittorio Prodi, Ana Gomes and Richard Howitt.