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Dissemination of results

ADAPTAR Project

1. International seminar: “Climate-induced migration: recent trends and future directions”, organized by the Centre D’Estudis de Dret Ambiental de Tarragona (CEDAT) – Monday 24th April 2023.

http://www.cedat.cat/news/911/international-seminar-climate-induced-migration-recent-trends-and-future-directions

2) Academic Paper: “¿Qué debería ser un migrante climático para el derecho internacional?” Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, Vol. 14, issue 1, 2023

https://raco.cat/index.php/rcda/article/view/419661

3) International Conference: Towards a Legal System in Harmony and Peace with Nature, Panel IV: Addressing Environmental REfugees’ needs: Main legal challenges and opportunities ahead.

Program

4) Focus Group on Climate Migrations on the topic “Social strategies to confront climate migrations” organized by the Ecology and Development Foundation (ECODES). Madrid, April 25, 2024. With the participation, among others, of representatives of Greenpeace, Entre Culturas, Ayuda en Acción, Alianza por la Solidaridad.

5) Publication of Book Chapter by Borràs-Pentinat, S. “The climate refuge in the European Union: the other forgotten migration” in Corti Varela, J., Jarillo Aldeanueva A. European Climate Law: Union Policies and External Action , Tirant lo Blanc, 2024, pp. 81-118.

https://editorial.tirant.com/es/ebook/derecho-climatico-europeo-politicas-de-la-union-y-accion-exterior-justo-corti-varela-9788411972802

6) Presentation “Climate-displaced People arriving in Spain” at International Conference SOCIOECOS 2024 Climate Change, Sustainability and Socio-ecological Practices, June 6-7, 2024

https://blogs.uned.es/derechoclimatico/wp-content/uploads/sites/269/2024/09/Conference-Programme-and-Timetable.pdf

7) Presentation “Climate migrations: conceptualization and challenges” at the VII International Congress of Development Studies, Just Transitions and Pacts for Sustainable Development, May 30-31, 2024

https://blogs.uned.es/derechoclimatico/wp-content/uploads/sites/269/2024/09/distribucion-propuestas.pdf

8) Presentation “Climate displaced people: approach to the debate in Spain” at GT21 (Sociology and Environment) within the XV Spanish Congress of Sociology, June 26-29, 2024.

https://www.conftool.com/fes2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_tracks=23&form_topic=0

9) Presentation “Migraciones climáticas: aproximación al debate en España”. at XV Congreso Español de Sociología. Sevilla, 26-29 junio 2024. 

https://congreso2024.fes-sociologia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Libro-de-Actas-XV-Congreso-Espanol-de-Sociologia.pdf

10) Presentation “Migraciones climáticas: análisis del debate en España”. at I Congreso Internacional de Estudios Socioambientales. 5-7 noviembre 2024. 

https://web.ua.es/es/congreso-internacional-estudios-socioambientales/programa-e-instrucciones.html

11) Research Seminar presenting the work in progress report of the project ADAPTAR. Discussants: Gloria Fernández Arribas (UPO), Verónica Laorden Pavón (CEAR), María Cruz Fajardo Vizcayo (independent scholar). 25 November 2024. Council meeting room, UNED Central Library.

12) Presentation “Enforcing International Environmental Law through Refugee Law/International Human Rights Law: The Case of Climate Displaced Persons” at International Conference the Crossroad of International Environmental Law Enforcement, European Society of Internacional Law, 2-3 December 2024.

https://blogs.uoc.edu/edcp/es/the-crossroad-of-international-environmental-law-enforcement/

14) Participation in the “XXIII Annual Report by CEAR: Refugees in Spain and Europe”  (March 2025), with a chapter in the “To Learn More” section titled “When Climate Change Pushes Towards the Sea: Displaced People from Senegal” (Justo Corti Varela and Carmen Lozano-Cabedo, pp. 141–146). The report was presented at the Spanish Congress on June 16, 2025.

Report: https://www.cear.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CEAR_XXIII_INFORME_ANUAL_2025.pdf
Presentation: https://app.congreso.es/AudiovisualCongreso/audiovisualEmisionSemiDirecto?codOrgano=497&codSesion=405&idLegislaturaElegida=15&fechaSesion=16/06/2025


15) Radio program “Climate Displaced People: A Reality”. Featuring Verónica Laorden (CEAR), Álvaro Jarillo (UNED), and Justo Corti Varela (UNED). 23 May 2025.

https://blogs.uned.es/derechoclimatico/?p=9579&lang=en

16) Roundtable at the seminar “Refugees, Forced Migration and Peace”, as part of the Peace and Mobilities network, titled “Climate Change and Forced Displacement”. Event organized by the University Institute for Migration Studies (Universidad Pontificia Comillas) together with other network members on May 28, 2025.

https://blogs.uned.es/derechoclimatico/wp-content/uploads/sites/269/2025/10/Comillas-Program_final-version-2.pdf

17) Extension Course “Environmental Displacement and International Law: Current State and Protection Pathways for the Displaced” (October 7–9, 2025).

https://blogs.uned.es/derechoclimatico/?p=9753&lang=en

Project Grant

ADAPTAR Project

The field work was completed in the first semester in 2024.

This work consisted of carrying out 36 in-depth qualitative interviews with UNHCR, NGOs (reception staff and legal advice), officials in charge of processing asylum and refuge applications (OAR and immigration police) and asylum/refugee applicants mainly. of the Sahel. The interviews have been carried out in the Canary Islands (Tenerife and Gran Canaria), Andalusia (Algeciras and Seville) and Madrid.

The interviews were anonymized, transcribed, and coded, following the protocol of the UNED Ethics Committee, which has given its VB to the scripts and informed consents.

Between June 2024 and December 2024, the preliminary results were presented at 10 national and international conferences (see Dissemination of Results).

In November 2024, the preliminary project report was presented at an internal seminar before three external discussants.

In February 2025, the project report was published, including the comments and contributions received.

Currently, work is being done on the publication of a book (with Marcial Pons publishing house) and several academic articles in indexed journals.

Grant

Rationale

ADAPTAR Project

Climate Change’s negative effects can disrupt people’s way of living in such a manner that oblige them to displace. In such events, displacements would be an adaptation to climate change. If displacements are international, people could suffer vulnerabilities if they are not offered an effective legal framework in the host country, either through Migration Law (including Human Rights protection), International Asylum Law, or subsidiary protection. Providing effective legal protection to climate-displaced people is also an (indirect) adaptation to climate change and, consequently, a green transition action.

The research hypothesis is that there are climate-displaced people among asylum seekers, as well as among those who apply for subsidiary protection or a temporary residence permit due to humanitarian reasons, and they are not given effective legal protection. A secondary hypothesis is that climate-displaced women are a target group that deserves special protection.

The project aims to contribute to the adaptation of the Spanish proceedings on asylum, subsidiary protection and temporary permits due to humanitarian reasons to the challenges climate displacements bring by: identifying and grading climate-displaced people’s vulnerability, and helping administrative and judicial authorities in their tasks of providing, particularly to women, effective protection.

Extension course in ‘European Economic Policies and Taxation for the Climate Transition’ co-organized with Tax Studies Institute (Ministry of Finance), 13th and 14th of February 2023

Summer Courses
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Extension course in ‘European Economic Policies and Taxation for the Climate Transition’
co-organized with Tax Studies Institute (Ministry of Finance), 13th and 14th of February 2023

The course addresses the economic and fiscal policies, which are the centre of the fight against climate change. The transition to a carbon-neutral European market calls for a series of adaptations in the production and consumption models. These changes require a regulatory boost, given the climate emergency. Hence, the economic policies moving towards decarbonization and, especially, the fiscal policies, are key elements in this transition at the European, national, regional, and local levels.

Programme and Registration

ENTRADAS RELACIONADAS

Dissemination 1/2022: “¡Fighting climate change is fun! Strategies to bring it into the classrooms”

Courses and informational publications

This second publication compiles a selection of the best informational projects prepared by the students who successfully completed our 2021/2022 European Climate Law Course. In the document, you can find a novel project on women and climate change and an original version on how to explain the European Green Deal to children. Both projects were also presented (and discussed) during the XXII Science Week 2022.

Dissemination 1/2022

Science Week 2022: ¡Fighting climate change is fun! Strategies to bring it into the classrooms

Courses and informational publications

In this new webinar, professors and students of our longlife learning course in European Climate Law introduce their ideas and strategies on how to bring the fight against climate change to children. The following topics were presented: “Women and climate change”; “The plastic island”; “Explaining the European Green Deal to my kids”. More than 90 people registered for this event, where they discussed the topics presented with the authors.

Poster
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European Emission Trading Scheme (1ed. 2022) 

MOOCs

European Emission Trading Scheme (1ed. 2022) 

Following UNED Abierta’s principles and EU’s dissemination strategy, our professors bring you now a new Mooc, an open course designed to bring all those interested in the topic closer to the EU’s most important instrument for climate change mitigation: The European emission trading scheme, better known as the “cap and trade” mechanism.  

The course does not require prior knowledge, it is open until the December, 10th and joining as a listener is free of charge.  

Currently, the course is only available in Spanish, as it is all the related information, that you can find by clicking on “UNED Abierta” below.  

UNED Abierta

ENTRADAS RELACIONADAS

Summer Course “Climate change inEU policies:Regulation and EconomicImpact”

Summer Courses
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Summer Course “Climatechange in EUpolicies: Regulation andEconomic Impact” ( 4thto 8thJuly, 2022)

Jean Monnet Module’s in European Climate Law team presents, under the proposal of the Department of Public International Law of UNED and the organization of UNED Ávila, a one-week summer course in European regulation on climate change and its economic impact. The course has a teaching load of 30 hours (1.5 ECTs) and offers the possibility of attending in person or online (live or deferred). More information about registration and enrolment can be found in the “Program” section below*.

For students in face-to-face modality of the course, the possibility of applying for a scholarship that covers the entire price of the tuition is offered. For more information, follow the “SCHOLARSHIPS” section below*. 

This Summer’s course will address the actions developed by the EU to address the challenges of climate change in areas such as energy, transport, competition, and taxation. The fight against climate change and the transition towards a decarbonized economy and society will be the main axes of the European integration process until 2050. The EU has drawn up the most ambitious legislative and budgetary package in its history around the so-called Green Deal, which has a significant social impact and completely redesigns the way Europeans relate to each other and to the rest of the world. The lectures will address the relationship between the different EU policies that are affected in this ecological transition. 

*Currently, information on inscription, enrolment and scholarships is only available in Spanish. 

 

SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarship Form
Programme

ENTRADAS RELACIONADAS

Interviewing Ana Digón and Francisco Javier García, from Agricultura Regenerativa Ibérica

Interviews

Agriculture is responsible for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union and 70% are due to livestock. Unlike other more emissive sectors, such as industry or transport, agricultural emissions have hardly been reduced in the last 10 years. It is a difficult task, since their emissions are essentially a consequence of the digestion processes. In this sense, strategies have been reoriented from seeking the reduction of said emissions, towards compensating them through carbon capture. One of these strategies is regenerative agriculture, a bridge between soil health, animal welfare and C02 absorption; a way of doing agriculture that is born from the systemic nature of life and the need to regenerate the land that results in our quality of life. In short, a transversal application of climate policies from agricultural policy.

Broadcast Date: January 15th, 2021 (Radio 3)

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