The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how advancing the sustainable development goals, particularly SDG 3 Health and SDG 13 Climate necessitates robust partnerships between science, medicine and legal practitioners. These solution-oriented partnerships must be supported by law and governance innovations.
In an open dialogue, leading science, biomedicine and legal practitioners from around the world consider recent surges in national and local sustainable development laws, track emerging trends and share new research findings on how university partnerships with government and civil society can help align post-pandemic recovery measures with Sustainable Development Goals 3, 12, 13 and 16, and assess progress, with interested HLPF delegates and observers. Special emphasis is placed on operationalizing target 16B, to promote and enforce laws and policies for sustainable development, with examples on good health and climate action.
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Program
Event Operations: Mr Freedom-Kai Phillips (Coordinator, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, University of Cambridge and Operations Director & Legal Research Fellow, CISDL)
13:00 – 13:20: Opening
Why are strong institutions and partnerships for SDGs 3, 13 and 16 so important, as we seek to reopen the global economy after COVID-19? How can world-class universities and other key public and private stakeholders partner innovatively to deliver these crucial SDGs?
Chairs: Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (CISDL Senior Director and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge) & Dr Fabiano de Andrade Correa (CISDL Lead Counsel, Justice & Governance)
Opening Remarks: HE Justice Prof Marcel Szabo (Constitutional Court Judge, Laureate of the HE Judge CG Weeramantry International Justice Award, and former Ombudsperson for Future Generations of Hungary’s United Nations Human Rights Commission)
13:20 – 14:00: Interactive Dialogue Session I: University / Award-winning Biomedicine Practitioner Partnerships for SDG 3 (40 mins – simultaneous to Session II)
How can award-winning biomedicine practitioners create innovative partnerships with academia to progress SDG 3? What innovative institutions and governance including codes can guide their collaborations?
Chairs: Ms Weslie Janeway (Investor and Philanthropist) & Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (CISDL Senior Director and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge)
Speakers: Dr Mark Kotter (Founder and Chief Executive Officer, bit.bio), Dr Ramy Ibrahim (Chief Medical Officer, bit.bio), Mr Florian Schuster (Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer/Chief Financial Officer, bit.bio) & Dr Tonya Frolov (Product Manager, bit.bio)
Moderator: Ms Naima Samuel (PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo)
Interactive Dialogue Session II: University / Award-winning Legal Practitioner Partnerships for SDG 13 (40 mins – simultaneous to Session I)
How can award-winning legal practitioners create innovative partnerships with academia to progress SDG 13? What international trade and investment law, and private international law instruments interact with climate mitigation and resilience to guide their collaborations?
Chairs: Adv Wendy Miles QC (Climate Law & Governance Initiative Chair, Founder of Net Zero Lawyers Alliance, Vice-President of International Chamber of Commerce & Barrister, Twenty Essex Street) & Adv Ayman Cherkaoui (CISDL Lead Counsel for Climate Change)
Speakers: Dr Markus Gehring (Lead Counsel, CISDL, and University Lecturer, University of Cambridge), Adv Michelle T Davies (Partner and Co-Head of ESG and International Head of Clean Energy and Sustainability, Eversheds Sutherland) & Prof Christina Voigt (Senior Legal Fellow, CISDL, and Professor of Law, University of Oslo)
Moderator: Mr Timothy Arvan (Research Officer, CISDL and PhD Candidate, University of Michigan)
14:00 – 14:30: Partnership and Leadership Panel: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
What is the contribution of innovative company and non-profit leaders, together with world-leading education and research institutions, toward achieving SDG 3 and SDG 13 in the context of pandemic recovery? How can sustainable development policy and law innovation, including codes of conduct, domestically and internationally, stimulate partnerships? What can we learn from new partnership experiences, and what do we carry forward into the future?
Chairs: Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (CISDL Senior Director and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge) & Dr Fabiano de Andrade Correa (CISDL Lead Counsel, Justice & Governance)
Reports from Sessions: Dr Mark Kotter (CEO and Founder of bit.bio), Dr Ramy Ibrahim (Chief Medical Officer, bit.bio), Adv Wendy Miles QC (Climate Law & Governance Initiative Chair, founder of Net Zero Lawyers Alliance; Vice-President of International Chamber of Commerce & Barrister, Twenty Essex Street) & Adv Ayman Cherkaoui (CISDL Lead Counsel for Climate Change)
Expert Speakers: Prof Alexandra Harrington (Research Director, CISDL and Albany Centre for Emerging Law), Prof Christina Voigt (Senior Legal Fellow, CISDL, and Professor of Law, University of Oslo), Prof Maya Prabhu (Lead Counsel for Health, CISDL and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University)
Moderator: Mr Tejas Rao (CISDL Associate Fellow and Coordinator, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, University of Cambridge)
This session convenes leading scholars and practitioners from leading universities such as the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, McGill University, Yale University, University of Stanford, University of Waterloo, MIT, University of Oslo, University of Nairobi, University of Costa Rica and University of Chile alongside leading biomedicine practitioners at bit.bio, also senior officials from leading institutions such as IUCN’s World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), the Climate Law and Governance Initiative and the new Net Zero Lawyers Alliance, the UN Environment Programme, UN Development Programme, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Green Climate Fund Secretariats.
Full Event Video
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