When the Climate Crisis claims your Home

When the Climate Crisis claims your Home Team
© Christina Hein
When the Climate Crisis claims your Home
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In 2019, a young team of academics, professionals, students and activists – all very much engaged in the field of environmental protection and climate change – came together to start a meaning- and impactful project on environmental migration: a topic currently disregarded by politicians and the general public alike but to certainly become highly relevant in the not-so-distant future. According to the Global Report on Internal Displacement, in 2018 61 percent, thus 17,2 million of all newly internally displaced were displaced due to sudden on-set disasters such as floods, storms, droughts or wildfires. In 2019, according to the IDMC, this figure already reached the 25 million mark. Yet, this is only the beginning of a problem that will increasingly and inevitably concern us in the future as extreme weather events caused at least in part by climate change are predicted to occur in an ever-increasing number over the next years. Therefore, the problem appears to be clear. Nevertheless, international awareness as well as reactions seem to be rare.

Thus, although migration as a result of natural disasters such as droughts, storms or floods is on the rise, it is not a very commonly discusssed topic. Thus, our work is aimed at raising awareness about and promoting exchange on the topic of climate-related migration. We want to draw attention to the difficulties and especially the legal uncertainty that affected people face, since flight because of a natural disaster is not a part of the Geneva Refugee Convention.

In our opinion, it is crucial to sensitize young people about this strong connection between the Climate Crisis and Migration - since they are the ones who will shape the future. This is why we started the "When the Climate Crisis claims your Home" Art Competition, Podcast, Blog and Performance Action. We want to offer a possibilty for young people to get creative and to bring about real change in the world.

Our work

"When the Climate Crisis claims your Home" Kunstwettbewerb/Art Competition:

Inform yourself about the issue of Climate Crisis and Migration, express your feelings and thoughts on the topic artistically and win up to 800€. 

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"When the Climate Crisis claims your Home" Podcast on YouTube and Spotify:   

1. "Im Gespräch mit Cosima Link - Einführung zu Klimakrise und Migration" on YouTube and Spotify
2. "Im Gespräch mit Manfred Nowak - Kunst und Menschenrechte" on YouTube and Spotify.  
3. "Conversation with Joanna Sustento - How does it feel when the climate crisis claims your home?" on YouTube and Spotify
4. "Im Gespräch mit dem Künstler Courtier (Simon Marian Hoffmann) - wie man durch Nachdenken, Kreieren und Lösungen finden Realität erschafft" on YouTube and Spotify

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"When the Climate Crisis claims your Home" Blog: 

1. "Die Sache mit dem mutig sein"
2. "Umwelt, Klimawandel und Flüchtlingsschutz" / "Environment, climate change and refugee protection
3. "Aktivismus in Zeiten der Corona Krise - UNSA Vienna am Klimastreik"
4. "Flucht aufgrund der Klimakrise: Was sagen die Parteien?"
5. "Junges Engagement als Treibstoff für Klimagerechtigkeit
6. "Der Blick des Künstlers - ein Interview

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"When the Climate Crisis claims your Home" Performance Action: 

As part of UNHCR Austria's "Langer Tag der Flucht" on October 2nd 2020 we are weaving a net of solidarity from ropes. For updates on our Performance Action follow our facebook event

Recent Activities

Activities

More information on our upcoming activities will follow shortly.

Kreativität ist ein wunderbarer Weg, um auf Dinge aufmerksam zu machen, die in unserer Welt falsch laufen. In Hinblick auf unseren Kunstwettbewerb sind wir auch selbst ein bisschen kreativ geworden und veröffentlichen hier einen Text, den unsere Mitarbeiterin Flora geschrieben hat. Viel Spaß!