Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Climate, Resilience and Mobility: A Duke Climate Collaboration Symposium

Date
Thursday, September 19, 2024 to Friday, September 20
Location
Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153
Contact
Philip Hollingsworth
Email
Climate, Resilience and Mobility: A Duke Climate Collaboration Symposium

About

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Floods, droughts, storms, sea-level rise, changing rainfall and rising temperatures intensify the fragility and vulnerability of communities, particularly in the developing world. Some will adapt by migrating. Others may become trapped, lacking the resources to move.

Communities can adapt to climate threats while remaining in place if they have opportunities to build resilience. However, the United Nations (UN) estimates that more than $200 billion is needed annually to support developing countries’ adaptation to climate change. Current global aid covers less than one-tenth of that sum.

Join us in exploring this challenge—and potential solutions—on September 19-20, 2024, at a Duke Climate Collaboration Symposium hosted by the Duke Program on Climate, Resilience, and Mobility; the Duke Office of Global Affairs; and the Duke Climate Commitment.  

The symposium opens on Thursday, September 19, with a keynote address by Indermit Gill (World Bank Group) and a panel focused on building resilience to climate change and the likely effects of these efforts on human mobility. The expert panelists will also discuss the potential for collaboration between NGOs, IGOs, government agencies, think tanks and academic researchers to enhance the knowledge frontier and improve policy response on these issues.

Panelists include Laurie Ashley (Center for Resilience, USAID Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security), Nicole Franz (Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN), Christian Lara (UN), Marie McAuliffe (International Organization for Migration) and Marie-Soleil Turmel (Catholic Relief Services).

The symposium continues with an invitation-only workshop on Friday, September 20, to further explore partnerships between researchers at Duke and non-academic organizations on topics at the intersection of climate change, migration and resilience.

The symposium is the third of the Duke Climate Collaboration Symposia, a series of convenings designed to accelerate climate solutions by developing new collaborations among Duke scholars and external partners. Each symposium focuses on identifying opportunities for Duke University to make the most of its interdisciplinary expertise and convening power for meaningful impact on climate challenges. 

The series is funded by a gift from The Duke Endowment in support of the Duke Climate Commitment, which unites the university’s education, research, operations and public service missions to address climate challenges.

Agenda

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Thursday, September 19, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

Keynote speaker Indermit Gill, panel discussion, and reception

Friday, September 20

Invitation-only workshop

Speakers

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Keynote

Indermit GillIndermit Gill, chief economist of the World Bank Group and senior vice president for Development Economics

Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Bank’s vice president for equitable growth, finance, and institutions, where he helped shape the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program.

Gill led the World Bank’s influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography. His work includes introducing the concept of the “middle-income trap” to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. He has published extensively on key policy issues facing developing countries—among other things, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, green growth and natural-resource wealth, labor markets, and poverty and inequality.

Gill has also taught at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Panelists

Laurie Ashley

 

Laurie Ashley, climate adaptation and resilience advisor, Center for Resilience, USAID Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security

Laurie Ashley facilitates resilience and adaptation outcomes in agriculture, food security, migration, land tenure, sustainable land management, and governance, policy, and planning. Ashley has worked collaboratively to address climate risks and adaptation solutions in complex social-ecological contexts for over 20 years.

 

 

 

Nicole Franz

Nicole Franz, equitable livelihoods team leader, Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Nicole Franz is a development economist with 18 years of experience in intergovernmental organizations. She holds a Master in International Cooperation and Project Design from University La Sapienza, Rome and a Master in Economic and Cultural Cooperation and Human Rights in the Mediterranean Region. From 2003 to 2008 she was a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In 2009-10 she was fishery planning analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, focusing on fisheries certification. Since 2011 she has worked for the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division where she coordinates the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) with a focus on inclusive policy processes and stakeholder empowerment. Since 2021 she has led the Equitable Livelihoods team. 


Christian LaraChristian Lara, strategic planning officer and head of Resident Coordinator Office, UN

Christian Lara is an international relations specialist with over 17 years of experience with the United Nations, focusing on political and humanitarian affairs. His work includes implementing the Ottawa Treaty, coordinating the global Ebola response in West Africa, and supporting peace agreements in Colombia and South Sudan. After completing a mid-career fellowship at Duke University, Chris became a senior policy advisor with the Duke Global Health Institute, where he emphasized the science-policy nexus and the role of research institutions in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

While at Duke, Lara earned multiple graduate certificates, including in Latin American Studies from CLACS, Communications and Leadership from the Fuqua School of Business, and Peace and Conflict Studies from UNC Chapel Hill. He began his career as a protection specialist with the U.S. Government, then transitioned to graduate studies before joining the United Nations. His UN experience includes roles at UN Headquarters and in the field with UN-OCHA, UN-DPKO, WHO, and UNMISS, focusing on emergency coordination and early recovery efforts. Currently, he is a senior coordination and strategic planning officer with the UN Resident Coordinators system and most recently served as head of the Resident Coordination Office in Syria.

 

Marie McAuliffeMarie McAuliffe, head, Migration Research and Publications Division, International Organization for Migration 

Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research & Publications Division at IOM headquarters in Geneva and editor of IOM’s flagship World Migration Report. She is an international migration specialist with over 25 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior government official and researcher.

McAuliffe has researched, published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration and is on the editorial boards of scientific journals International Migration, Migration Studies and Migration and Development, and is an associate editor of the Harvard Data Science Review

McAuliffe is a senior associate (non-resident) at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Sir Roland Wilson Fellow at the School of Demography at the Australian National University (ANU). She is a member of MIT’s Global Technology Review Panel, IUSSP’s panel on international migration and curates the World Economic Forum’s Migration Transformation Map. 

McAuliffe was awarded a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship in 2015 to complete doctoral research at ANU on irregular migration. She is the 2018 recipient of the Charles Price Prize in demography for outstanding doctoral research.


Marie-Soleil TurmelMarie-Soleil Turmel, science advisor, Latin America and Caribbean Region, Catholic Relief Services

Marie-Soleil Turmel is the scientific advisor for the Catholic Relief Services Water Smart Agriculture Platform in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. She is an agronomist/soil scientist with 15 years of experience conducting research and extension to promote soil health, productivity, and climate resilience of smallholder farming systems in Latin America. Before joining CRS, she worked as a research scientist for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Bioversity International. Turmel holds a Ph.D. in Soil Science from McGill University and an M.Sc. in Agronomy from the University of Manitoba.