Kees van der Geest
@keesvandergeest.bsky.social
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Human Geographer | UNU-EHS | Head of EMIC | Research: #HumanMobility in the context of #ClimateChange. #Migration #Displacement #PlannedRelocation #LossAndDamage #NELD #ECMN
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keesvandergeest.bsky.social
📢📢 Next week we will launch the Guiding Framework & Toolkit on integrating #HumanMobility & rural livelihoods into climate action!
🌍 Co-hosted by @FAO & @UNUEHS.
🗓️Thursday, 15 May
⏰ 11:00 – 12:30 UTC
📌Online webinar
Registration: bit.ly/4iR2Qme
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transformres.bsky.social
Our #SummerSchool ☀️ #Call4Applications 📝 is open!
➡️Exploring the intersections of climate change, migration, (im)mobilities, resilience & climate futures
➡️14–18 July 2025 at the #UniversityOfVienna 🎓
➡️No tuition fee - Apply by 31 May
Application link: lnkd.in/dqxvdY5e
More info: lnkd.in/dVEXWf8r
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unumerit.bsky.social
🌍 New Policy Brief: "The Nexus Between Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Mental Health"

This brief highlights the mental health challenges of climate-displaced populations and calls for urgent action on support, empowerment, and tech-driven policy change.

Read here: go.unu.edu/gQrX8

#UNUat50
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rid-networks.bsky.social
New piece by a great author team spotlights a community in Fiji waiting for lasting solutions to their displacement. Calling attention to state and humanitarian obligations, it lays out out a rights-based path forward. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
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rid-networks.bsky.social
Introducing a new L&D guiding framework and toolkit by FAO, this blog explores how, with inclusive adaptation and mitigation planning & action, loss & damage experienced in the climate change, rural livelihood and (im)mobility nexus can be reduced. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
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duycks.bsky.social
🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below
keesvandergeest.bsky.social
📢📢 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the ECMN conference in Bonn (8-10 July 2025)! 86 colleagues have already submitted theirs! Here is a FAQ page and the submission form: www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/
Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!
keesvandergeest.bsky.social
📣📣 It's a great pleasure to announce the Call for Papers of the 3rd Annual Conference of the Environment & Climate Mobility Network (ECMN) in Bonn, Germany (8-10 July 2025).

Please access the full #CfP and submit your abstract by 10 March 2025 at
www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/
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nytopinion.nytimes.com
"Rural towns and villages generally lack the resources to build enormous sea walls or levees to hold back storms and the rising tide. Many of these communities will have no choice but to relocate," Stephen Lezak writes.
Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean?
Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.
www.nytimes.com
keesvandergeest.bsky.social
My first day on Bluesky 🌞. I will post, like and share content related to research on #ClimateChange and #HumanMobility (migration, displacement, planned relocation, immobility). I also work on #LossAndDamage. Outside work, I love growing my own food. Follow me and I will follow you!🤝
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sarahnash.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS! Start your work year off right by submitting a proposal for the workshop 'Governing Climate Mobilities 15 Years After the Cancun Agreements', being convened by me in Krems from 27th-29th May 2025. Submissions here: forms.office.com/e/Xgvr59fjAc.

Photo: © Stadt Krems
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hasterly.bsky.social
1/ 🚨 What drives #habitability changes in an era of climate crisis? Our new paper dives into the complex, dynamic, and socially differentiated concept of habitability. Here’s what you need to know 🧵 #ClimateChange #Habitability sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @HABITABLE_H2020
Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world
As global climate change intensifies, the question of what makes a place habitable or uninhabitable is critical, particularly in the context of a pote…
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keesvandergeest.bsky.social
Thanks Simon! I would love to be added to the group.