The Clash Over the Paris Climate Talks

Kaldor Centre Director, Professor Jane McAdam, was interviewed in this piece for The Atlantic published on 19 November 2015 on the challenges of addressing global warming.

“We need to connect people working on disaster risk reduction with people working on climate change adaptation with people working on migration and refugees. There needs to be an integrated thinking about how we will deal with climate change across many different policy areas,” said Jane McAdam, the director of the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales.

“There are always a number of factors that lead to displacement—so you can’t say it’s climate change full stop. But it will be climate change, overlaid on existing pressures like overpopulation and lack of income earning opportunities. So it can become the straw that broke the camel’s back,” McAdam added...

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