On Monday 8 June 16:00 CEST, the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) will launch a series of monthly webinars on ‘Human Rights Strategies in Climate Litigation’. The series will bring together academic experts and practitioners involved in human-rights based climate change litigation, drawing on comparative insights from different regions. Each webinar will provide a perspective on how human rights-based climate litigation in India, Latin America, Europe, North America, the Pacific, and Africa.
The series will kick-start with a webinar on Monday 8 June 16:00 CEST (10:00 AM NY time) where renowned experts will introduce human rights strategies in climate litigation.
Joana Setzer (LSE) will shed light on the state of play on climate litigation globally, based on data gathered in the Grantham Institute litigation database.
Hari Osofsky (Penn Law School) will describe the rights turn in climate litigation, explaining what human rights strategies are and what they are being used for.
Tessa Khan (Urgenda) will reflect on successes in human rights-based climate change litigation and their implications for future litigation.
David Boyd will share insights from his interventions in climate change litigation, as part of the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment.
To read the blogpost introducing the series, see: https://gnhre.org/2020/06/02/webinar-series-human-rights-strategies-in-climate-change-litigation-what-is-it-all-about/
To register for the kick-off webinar, see: https://widener.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd–trD0oHdwQ6iiOyGmwejEZGX6dphpt