Climate Law and Governance: Future Practices and Prospects for Climate Justice

Friday, 11th December from 13:15pm to 14:45pm at the CoP21 Venue in Observer Room 03
Official Side Event / UNFCCC CoP21 in Paris
 
Join us for an interactive dialogue with world-leading experts on international, national and local law and governance challenges in responding to climate change.
 
Hear the results of Climate Law and Governance Day process. Share innovative legal tools for implementing the Paris outcomes. Discuss leading national and sub-national experiences with economic, environmental and human rights law and policy reforms for climate mitigation, adaptation and financing. Learn how the law and governance research and education community can contribute in the coming years.
 
Invited Speakers:
* Dr Kirit Shelat, Executive Chairman, National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development & Public Leadership (NCCCSD)
* Prof John Knox, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Henry C Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
* Ms Angela Delfino, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development / Dr Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (tbc)
* Prof James Cameron, Chairman, Overseas Development Institute (tbc)
 
Chairs:
* Prof Tony La Vina, Dean, Ateneo School of Governance & Board Member, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
* Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law & Fellow, LCIL, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 
Invited Interventions:
Delegates discuss new law reforms from UK, Scotland, Ireland, India, Mexico, Philippines, Australia (New South Wales), Canada (British Columbia), USA (California), Brazil, Grenada, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Zambia and the Philippines, among others.
 
Hosts: The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), the National Council on Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD) of India, the Ateneo School of Governance (ASOG) of the Philippines, with thanks to the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the LCIL at the Law Faculty of the University of Cambridge, IREDIES at La Sorbonne Law School, the Governance Environment and Markets (GEM) Initiative at Yale University, University of Toronto and McGill University, the International Law Association and others from the inaugural Climate Law and Governance Day consortium of leading law and governance institutes, law faculties, law firms and inter-governmental organizations.