Sarah Louise Nash is a political scientist working on climate change politics and policy, especially at the intersection of climate change and human mobilities, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. She is the holder of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for her project “Climate Diplomacy and Uneven Policy Responses on Climate Change and Human Mobility” (CLIMACY). Her first book, Negotiating Migration in the Context of Climate Change. International Policy and Discourse, was published in 2019 with Bristol University Press. Sarah holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg, an MSc in Human Rights and International Politics from the University of Glasgow, an MA in German and Politics from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Vienna. In 2012, Sarah was a recipient of the Green Talents Prize for High Potentials in Sustainable Development from the German Ministry of Education and Research.
Project: “The Politics of the Climate Change and Migration Nexus: Taking the UNFCCC Task Force to Task”
Climate change and migration are widely reported to be defining phenomena of the 21st century. Increasingly the climate change and migration nexus is becoming conceptualized as a phenomenon in its own right, worthy of attention by governance and policymaking communities. The forum in which most concrete attempts to govern have been made is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where, in the outcomes of the Paris climate conference, a Task Force on climate change and displacement has been created. This Task Force ushers in a new era for the nexus in climate politics as the UNFCCC now has an entity dedicated solely to considering this phenomenon.
This project examines this Task Force and uses it as a site to delve deeper into the politics of the climate change and migration nexus. Practical questions will be asked regarding the potential members and institutional setup of the Task Force. Questions from the academic literature will also be posed, surrounding who has the power to decide the terms of the debate and how this relates to the role of knowledge. Importantly, this project asks what effects these relations have on policies that are proposed, adopted, and ultimately implemented.
The Devil's in the Detail: Policymaking on Climate Change and Human Mobility in the UNFCCC
2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellow Sarah Louise Nash‘s policy brief “The Devil’s in the Detail: Policymaking on Climate Change and Human Mobility in the UNFCCC” was published in May 2017.
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The Trump Effect on Climate Policy: Hard Times for Global Climate Action
Senior Scholar and Climate Change Cluster Coordinator Ümit Şahin, and 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows Tuğba Ağaçayak and Sarah Louise Nash‘s policy brief “The Trump Effect on Climate Policy: Hard Times for Global Climate Action” was published in April 2017.
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Welcoming of the 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows
We welcome our 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows, Magdalena Kirchner, Sarah Louise Nash, Wiebke Hohberger, Kristen Biehl, Tuğba Ağaçayak ve Emre Üçkardeşler.
Magdalena Kirchner | Rising to the Occasion? Turkey and Germany in Transatlantic Crisis Management
Sarah Louise Nash | The Politics of the Climate Change and Migration Nexus: Taking the UNFCCC Task Force to Task
Wiebke Hohberger | Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Current Approaches of State and Non-State Integration Efforts and Possibilities for Turkish-German Joint Projects
Kristen Biehl | Examining Policy Formations and Everyday Realities of Refugee Integration in Turkey
Tuğba Ağaçayak | Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Waste and Agriculture Sectors and its Multi-level Governance in Turkey
Emre Üçkardeşler | A Framework for Long-term Education and Integration Strategies
Beyond Climate Migration
2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellow Sarah Louise Nash, 2015/16 Mercator-IPC Fellow Christiane Fröhlich, and 2014/15 Mercator-IPC Fellow Ethemcan Turhan convened a workshop titled “Beyond Climate Migration” on April 20-21, 2017 at IPC. Dr. Andrew Baldwin from Durham University, UK, gave the keynote speech on “White World Order, International Relations, and Migration: Getting Beyond Climate Migration.”
2016 Climate Summit in Marrakech – Observations from COP22
IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative convened a panel titled “2016 Climate Summit in Marrakech – Observations from COP22,” on November 21, 2016 at IPC. Climate Studies Coordinator Ümit Şahin, 2014/15 Mercator-IPC Fellow Ethemcan Turhan, 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellow Sarah Nash, and Marmara University Department of Political Science and International Relations Faculty Member Semra Cerit Mazlum shared their general observations on the summit, as well as Turkey’s official position on the climate change regime, with academics, civil society representatives, and journalists in this field.
Welcoming of the 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows
The Welcoming of the 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows was held on October 10 at the Seed, Sakıp Sabancı Museum. The extension of the Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative until 2021 was also announced during the event.
The event began with the welcoming remarks by IPC Director Fuat Keyman and followed by remarks from the Chairman of the Advisory Board at Stiftung Mercator, Rüdiger Frohn. An alumni movie, which exhibited former Mercator-IPC Fellows and their projects, was screened after the welcoming remarks. The 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows were introduced to the audience through another movie screening. The movie presented the 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellows Kristen Biehl, Wiebke Hohberger, Magdalena Kirchner, Emre Üçkardeşler, Tuğba Ağaçayak, and Sarah Louise Nash and their projects. After the event ended, the distinguished guests enjoyed a meet and greet open buffet dinner.
