This AMSSATalk is for any settlement and integration staff wanting to learn more about the connections between climate change, service delivery and human rights. Key intersecting realities include Indigenous land-based awareness, local provincial displacement and environmental racism. Viewers will hear speakers consider ways to bring people and communities to the centre of the conversation and how to support newcomers with accessing health, employment and other services during and after climate emergency response situations and always.

Currently, there is no refugee designation for those displaced by climate change. However, as the impacts of climate change increase, so is the number of people displaced by natural disasters and environmental degradation. The World Bank has estimated that by 2050, there will be 143 million more climate migrants from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia alone.

Meanwhile, within Canada, climate change is impacting internal displacement (wildfires in BC) and further displacing Indigenous Peoples from their lands. Racism and colonialism continue to permeate all layers of our society and as a result of environmental racism, climate change disproportionately impacts marginalized communities, particularly BIPOC and/or poor communities.

Register to join to the AMSSATalk and stay for a live Q&A period with our speakers. This talk compliments the AMSSA Migration Matters info sheet on the same topic.

Date: Thursday February 11, 2021
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (PST)
Online: Upon registering, you’ll receive a Zoom link the day before the event
Please register HERE.

Registration deadline: Wednesday February 10, 2021

3:00 PM (PST)