Climate Change & Migration: Compounding Factors

WEBINAR RESOURCES:

Gregg Brekke Slide Presentation
Andrew Kang Bartlett Slide Presentation
Presbyterian News Service Article by Mike Ferguson 1/14/25
Migrant Media Monitoring Project (WACC-NA)
Sojourners article by Gregg Brekke, “If they felt safe, they would not leave”
Internal Displacement Crisis w/in the US GA Resolution
Presbyterian Tree Fund
Ekvn-Yefolecv Maskoke Eco-Village: A Presbyterian Tree Fund recipient and Hunger Program grantee partner
“The past/future world we thirst for” – Article by Andrew Kang Bartlett
Ekvn-Yefolecv website with great videos
Alaska Community Action on Toxics website
Land back in Nenana
Article about the land struggle
Toward Food Sovereignty in Alaska Native Communities (article about Eva Dawn Burk & Calypso Farm)
Calypso Farm website
Ionia (Alaska intentional community on the Kenai peninsula; former PHP grant partner)
Native Movement (PHP grantee partner and great group organizing on mining, food sovereignty and climate change)
Forest Assisted Migration video
Farm and Forest Growers Cooperative (Presbyterian Tree Fund recipient)

Climate Change & Migration

Climate Change and Migration: Compounding Factors

Different yet parallel perspectives on the profound effects of climate change on migration will be the topic of this very important and timely webinar.

Along with policies that favor imported goods, conflict over water resources and arable land, and large-scale corporate farming activities, climate change is a growing and significant factor in the movement and displacement of people in many parts of the world. Gregg Brekke will discuss the latest research with and about migrants, along with published reports of the effects of climate change, especially on vulnerable people, many of whom rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Andrew Kang Bartlett will discuss climate displacement of trees and animals and related impact on people. He will talk about forest assisted migration and indigenous reforestation efforts, along with specific stories of work being done by two Presbyterian Tree Fund recipients in Minnesota and Alabama. Andrew will also discuss the recent work of groups in Alaska.

Webinar Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Presenters: Gregg Brekke, photojournalist and writer
Andrew Kang Bartlett, Associate for National Hunger Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program, PC(USA)

The Rev. Gregg Brekke is an award-winning photojournalist and writer dedicated to telling stories of justice and faith. Through more than 20 years of traveling the world to cover stories of migration, the Rev. Gregg Brekke has documented the devastating impact of climate change on the movement of people.

Andrew Kang Bartlett has degrees from Friends World College and San Francisco State University. He has worked and studied in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, and Central America, and lived for five years in East Asia working with Koreans in Japan on their civil rights struggles, primarily at the Korea Christian Center in Osaka. This summer he’ll celebrated 36 years of marriage with his former Korean drums teacher, Haeja Kang. They have two children – Elías (30), a public defense lawyer, and Julian (27), a cook for the unhoused population in Louisville. For fun Andrew enjoys group reading of Rudolf Steiner, yoga, ecstatic dance, hiking, cycling, pickleball, and growing sweet potatoes.