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Climate change and migration: Understanding factors, developing opportunities in the Sahel Zone, West Africa and the Maghreb

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Add to Calendar 2023-12-03 10:00:00 2025-10-21 16:01:46 Climate change and migration: Understanding factors, developing opportunities in the Sahel Zone, West Africa and the Maghreb Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

Amal El Ouassif, Senior International Relations Specialist at the Policy Center for the New South, will be presenting a report she co-authored titled “Climate change and migration: Understanding factors, developing opportunities in the Sahel Zone, West Africa and the Maghreb” during a panel co-organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the European Institute of Mediterranean and the Union for the Mediterranean. This report underscores the immediate need for political interventions to address the escalating impact of climate change on migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region and neighboring areas. It highlights how factors like droughts and degraded soils in West Africa, the Sahel, and the Maghreb are driving human displacement. By linking climate-induced conflicts to armed violence and subsequent migration, the report stresses the urgency for comprehensive policies to mitigate these challenges and prevent ongoing humanitarian crises.

This event is taking place at Dubai, During COP28, December 3rd.  

Speakers
Amal El Ouassif
Senior International Relations Specialist
Amal El Ouassif is a Senior International Relations Specialist at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS).She is also a PhD candidate in Forced Displacement Induced by Climate Change at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) and CNAM-Paris and a member of the IDRC-FGSES Chair of UM6P on Forced Displacement Studies.At the PCNS, Amal El Ouassif conducts research on topics including migration, forced displacement, and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.Before joining PCNS in 2018, she worked as a program coordinator at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and served as a consultant in development policies with the office of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Morocco.She is also a former bluebook trainee in the Directorate General ...