Date: 13-14 May 2021
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Organiser: Migration Research Institute
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Programme
Day 1 (13 May):
8:30-8:45: Arrival of the lecturers
8:45-9:00: Opening remarks
Zoltán Szalai (Director General, MCC Foundation)
Zsolt Barthel-Rúzsa (Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Századvég Foundation)
9:00-9:50: Keynote speeches
Attila Steiner (Secretary of state for the development of circular economy, energy and climate policy, Ministry for Innovation and Technology)
Tamás Dezső (Director, Migration Research Institute)
9:50-10:20: Coffee break
10:20-11:40: Environmental sustainability
Takele Bekele (Dean, College of Social Science and Humanities, Dire Dawa University)
Gergely Tóth (Professor, Institute for Sustainable Development and Farming, MATE): Humane economics – How to keep home emigrants with basic environmental and economic conditions?
Diána Szőke (Researcher): Climate and defense: EU and NATO perspectives
Klaudia Tóth (Researcher, MRI): Climate Change Related Vulnerability in the Lake Chad Basin – Prospects and Challenges
11:40-12:00: Q & A
12:00-13:00: Lunch break
13:00-14:00: Climate change and migration
Calcum T. M. Nicholson (Researcher, British Parliament): Climate migration: the role and responsibility of researchers in the ‘post-truth’ world
David Engels (Free University Brussels): Late civilisations and mass migration: some comparative perspectives
Viktor Marsai (Research Director, MRI): God only knows – belief and adaptation in Africa
14:00-14:20: Q & A
14:20-14:40: Coffee break
14:40-16:00 Migration, Climate Change and Water management
Hadi Jaafar (American University of Beirut): Refugees, water stress, and climate change in the Middle East
András Szöllősi-Nagy (Department of Water and Environmental Policy, University of Public Service)
Gábor Baranyai (Department of Water and Environmental Policy, University of Public Service): Global water (in)security and its impacts international migration
François Gemenne (Hugo Observatory, University of Liège): Refugees shouldn’t be used as props to alert to the dangers of climate change
16:00-16:15: Q & A
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30: Youth and Climate: What About Our Future? Roundtable discussion
Moderator: Orsolya Kovács-Magosi (Researcher, MCC Climate Policy Institute)
Balázs Kelemen (UN Youth Delegate of Hungary)
Francesco Giubilei (President of Fondazione Tatarella)
Benji Backer (American Consercative Coalition, President and Founder)
Day 2 (14 May):
8:30-9:00: Arrival of the lecturers
9:00-9:30: Keynote speech
Vanessa Nakate (climate activist, founder of Youth for Future Africa)
9:30-10:30: Ecological systems
Orsolya Ferencz (Ministerial Commissioner for Space Research, Ministry for Innovation and Technology): Global crises – climate change
Anneliese Depoux (Director of the Paris-Berlin Virchow-Villermé Public Health Center at the University of Paris): Connections between planetary health, climate change and migration
Eörs Szathmáry (ELKH Centre for Ecological Research, and Presidential Committee for Sustainable Development, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Climate change, biotic migration, and emerging diseases
10:30-10:40: Q & A
10:40-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:40: Social consequences and adaptation strategies
Shahamak Rezaei (Roskilde University): Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship (TDE), Migration Corridor & Building Corridor Innovation System
Olivér Hortay (Századvég Foundation): Climate policy and public opinion: dilemmas and expectations in Europe
11:40-12:00: Q & A
12:00-13:00: Lunch break
13:00-14:00: Religious and political effects of climate change (roundtable discussion)
Moderator: Kristóf Veres (MRI)
Eszter Petronella Soós (Milton Friedman University)
Bence Bauer (MCC Hungarian-German Institute)
José Luis Bazan (International lawyer)
14:00: Closing remarks