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Background

ClimLaw: Graz – Research Centre for Climate Law critically examines developments in climate protection law from Austrian, European, and international perspectives. The Centre engages in collaborative research with national and international partners, focusing on climate and environmental law, with particular expertise in national, comparative, and international public law, as well as human rights. Emphasizing a transdisciplinary approach, ClimLaw: Graz works closely with experts in climate science, policy, economics, and ethics. Its research covers a wide range of pressing topics, including climate negotiations, litigation, liability, conflicts, and climate-induced migration. The Centre also contributes to legal dialogue and policy-making through the publication of scientific reports and knowledge partnerships.

The ACE Observatory is a climate justice collaborative dedicated to advancing and tracking people-centered climate action through radical collaboration. Grounded in equity and self-determination, the Observatory brings together frontline communities, youth, Indigenous Peoples, researchers, and advocates to co-create tools, evidence, and strategies that shift power and embed justice, participation, and accountability in climate governance. It monitors the implementation of ACE commitments, builds capacity, and supports governments and civil society to scale inclusive climate action, and helps transform policy into rights-based, participatory practice.

Objectives

1. Unpack how climate-related human security risks, such as displacement, labor precarity, and conflict, disproportionately impact women and marginalized populations.
2. Highlight the impacts of climate-related security risks, such as loss of livelihoods, conflicts over natural resources, food and water insecurity and human mobility on women's populations and the need to uphold their rights in adaptation planning
3. Introduce tools and strategies for integrating mobility-aware, gender-responsive, and rights-based approaches into adaptation planning.
4. Promote inclusive and participatory mechanisms, especially the engagement of women, local communities, and climate-affected migrants, in the design and implementation of climate adaptation policies.
5. Enhance the capacity of policymakers, practitioners, and civil society to implement comprehensive, cross-sectoral strategies that integrate adaptation planning with human security and justice.

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