Cluster 2 - Governance of Climate Mobilities

Phoenix focuses on the integration of climate mobilities into policy frameworks outside the direct sphere of migration and mobilities governance. As noted in the call, mobility, development and climate change have been linked via the Cancun Adaptation Framework, 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, the 2016 New York Declaration and its two resulting global compacts and other international policy frameworks. Yet, just as climate mobility cannot be reduced to a single source or cause, policies also have multiple effects. Policy areas of note are sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, health, food, and climate change. A core question will be the impact of crisis framing on the governance of climate (im)mobilities across these policy silos: what impacts does it have on governance and policy decisions when (im)mobility drivers are (not) framed as crises? What does an alternative framing of STPs bring to governance approaches? In particular, this will allow us to explore the tension between the severity of climate impacts on human populations and the long-term nature of the consequences that leads to framings of both exceptionality and normalization.

Tasks

1. Policy Mapping. A mapping exercise will be conducted of integration of climate (im)mobilities in the respective policy silos at the international level.

2. Interviews with local policy stakeholders and policy briefs. To investigate climate mobility governance in each participant country, teams in clusters 3 and 4 will carry out in-depth interviews with relevant local policy stakeholders and prepare policy briefs.

3. Interviews with global-level policy stakeholders. Semi-structured expert Interviews with policy stakeholders will be conducted to deeper understand their perceptions of climate (im)mobilities for their area of policy expertise and furthermore to deeper understand the usage of crisis framings of climate (im)mobilities and how this reflects in their work on the linkages. Individual interview partners will be identified in the course of the policy mapping exercise and further utilizing snowball sampling. However, individuals in policy and/or technical positions within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Health Organization (WHO) will be initial points of approach for an interview.

4. Follow-up interviews with global-level policy stakeholders. In a second step, the policy briefs produced by country teams will be discussed with global-level policy stakeholders to elucidate the level of (dis)connect between policy levels in a series of follow-up active interviews. These interviews will on the one hand, aim to generate further research findings on the potential for holistic approaches across both policy silos and levels. On the other hand, it will also provide an opportunity for informal dissemination of research results. (lead partners)

5. Writing a thematic report and article on the governance landscape. Both a report and journal article will pull together the findings from the mapping exercise and both rounds of interviews in formats that are targeted at stakeholder and scientific communities respectively.