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Event

25 September 2019

Climate change, multiple crises and collapse: What can the aid sector do to anticipate and adapt to the challenges ahead?

If we accept there is a possibility that the global system might collapse, we have to ask ourselves what the aid sector’s position, role and responsibilities will be. We need to look at what the future of aid might be, and humanitarian action in particular, in contexts that are not likely to be conducive to international solidarity and cooperation between countries. We also need to analyse past and current crises in order to improve our understanding of how individuals and communities react to shocks, and learn lessons from this. We need to explore the changes that this implies as of today.

This event, the 12th edition of the Autumn School on Humanitarian Aid, will take into consideration not only climate change, but also the other crises to come due to biodiversity loss and the end of non-renewable resources. Based on existing research, the aim will be to present possible scenarios for the future, then to look in detail at the international aid sector and what the consequences of these transformations might be for aid architecture and aid practices in the short, medium and long term.

Speakers

  • Sylvain Ponserre, Senior Monitoring Coordinator, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
  • Corine Morel-Darleux, Auvergne Rhône-Alpe Regional Councillor
  • Dominique Raynaud, Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and a former member of the IPCC
  • Pablo Servigne, independent researcher, author and speaker
  • Fernando Briones, Professor at the University of Colorado
  • Aurelie Ceinos, Climate & Resilience Specialist, CARE International
  • Grégoire Chambaz, Deputy Editor of the Swiss Military Review, member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre d’histoire et de prospectives militaires
  • Bruno Jochum, Research Fellow in residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), former General Director of MSF Switzerland’s Operational Centre in Geneva
  • Philippe Thomas, DG for Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, DG DEVCO
  • Arthur Keller, trained engineer, lecturer, trainer, consultant and author
  • Gaëlle Nizery, Prevention Preparedness global issues – team leader, DG ECHO
  • Charles Tellier, Director of the Crisis Prevention and Post-Conflict Recovery Division, AFD

 

Find out more here.