Water displacement

Water and Displacement

6.12.2021
15:00-17:00 (CET)
Hybrid event

Objectives

The hybrid event was organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in conjunction with the Permanent Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations Office in Geneva and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Slovenia with the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva.

The session aimed to create awareness of the link between water and displacement, with climate change accelerating a global water crisis, which – together with rainfall variability – is expected to be one of the contributing forces in population displacement.

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Moderator

Ambassador Anita Pipan

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Ambassador Thomas Wagner

Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation in Geneva

Speakers

Petteri Taalas

Petteri Taalas

Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Janez_Lenarčič

Janez Lenarčič

European Commissioner for Crisis Management

Stanislav Raščan

State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and acting Minister for Development Cooperation

Panel 1

Robert Mardini

Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Olga Algayerova

UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Esha Dilip Zaveri

Senior Economist, World Bank

Boštjan Rogelj

PhD., Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana

Panel 2

Mami Mizutori

Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction

Andrew Harper

Special Advisor on Climate Action, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Manuel Marques Pereira

Head of Division for Migration, Environment and Climate Change) at the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Walter Kaelin

Special Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement

Matthias Berninger, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Sustainability, Bayer

Matthias Berninger

Matthias Berninger (born 1971) is a former German politician and member of The Greens from 1993 until 2007.
From 2001 to 2005, Berninger served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection under minister Renate Künast in the second cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. After leaving the government, he was his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on economic policy from 2005 until 2007.
Since 2019, Berninger has been serving as head of public and government affairs at Bayer.