GRF Young Fellows Program
2024 Term Second Meeting
February 17, 2024

The second meeting of the 2024 term of the GRF Young Fellows Program, which was designed to bring together students pursuing their undergraduate education at leading universities in Turkey and around the world on a platform where they can freely, rationally and constructively discuss and question global issues based on international relations, was held on February 17, 2024, at the GRF office.

The discussion session of the program, which focused on the theme "Climate Crisis", was moderated by Selin Uğurtaş, an independent climate journalist. Based on the concepts we frequently encounter in the context of climate change and numerical data based on current studies of international organizations, participants discussed climate justice, human rights, responsibility and technological solutions to combat the climate crisis.

Guest speaker Prof. Levent Kurnaz; GRF Member, Professor at Boğaziçi University Department of Physics and Director of the Climate Change and Policies Research and Implementation Center, shared his thoughts on climate-induced migration. Prof. Kurnaz started the session by examining the concept of climate migrant and discussed intergovernmental climate change conferences, climate policies and the political dimensions of combating the climate crisis, and held an interactive session with the participants on climate change-induced migration and its governance.