Leverhulme Lecture & Distinguished Experts Dialogue
Wednesday 01 December 2021 | 18:00 Geneva | 17:00 Cambridge | 12:00 Montreal / New York
University of Cambridge and University of Glasgow
Highlights
This event is hosted by University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen Toope, and features a dialogue preceded by a public online Leverhulme Lecture, opened by Professor Diane Coyle, Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, which is being provided by Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge; Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Full Professor of Law, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo; Executive Secretary of the global CoP26 Climate Law and Governance Initiative and former senior legal advisor to the UNFCCC Presidency, as well as author/editor of 24 books and over 120 papers on law and governance related to climate change and sustainable development, and closed by Prof Sara Carter, Vice-Principal and Head of Social Sciences College for the University of Glasgow.
The programme is now available, with a summary is included below. We are especially delighted to confirm the Distinguished Experts Dialogue will be chaired by Adv James Cameron, former Chairman of the Overseas Development Institute and Friend of the UK Presidency COP26. He is joined by other renowned leaders including laureates of the Climate Law and Governance Global Leadership Awards Douglas Leys QC, General Counsel of the UNFCCC Green Climate Fund; Wendy Miles QC of the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance, former Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration; Paul Watkinson, Senior Negotiator of France and recent co-Chair of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technical Advice (SBSTA); as well as Prof Christina Voigt, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Chair and recently re-elected Co-Chair of the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee and Rt. Hon Professor Nico Schrijver, Professor Emeritus of Public International Law of the University of Leiden Law School, State Councillor in the Netherlands Council of State, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and former President of the International Law Association. International experts in the dialogue also include Adv Vesselina Haralampieva, Senior Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Dr Megan Bowman, Director, Climate Law & Governance Centre, University of London Kings College, Prof Michael Mehling, Deputy Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Professor of Practice at the University of Strathclyde & Editor-in-Chief of Carbon & Climate Law Review; Adv Ayman Cherkaoui, Vice-Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law & Lead Counsel for Climate Change, CISDL; Adv Hafij Khan, Director, Climate Justice Centre of Bangladesh & newly-elected LDC Exec Comm Member, Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss & Damage, Dr Markus Gehring, Director, Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) & Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge; Prof Sumudu Attapattu, Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at UW Law School & Lead Counsel for Human Rights, CISDL; Ms Emily Farnworth, Co-Director, Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Change Engagement & Co-Chair, Cambridge Zero Policy Forum, University of Cambridge. Justice Antonio Benjamin, Justice of the National High Court of Brazil (STJ) and founder of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment (GJIE) and Prof Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, kindly agreed to close.
This series of open public Leverhulme Lectures raises complex, inter-linked ‘wicked problems’ and innovative solutions to global sustainability and justice challenges. They consider how the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a common global public policy agenda, supported by binding international legal principles and rules of treaty regimes, worth researching, building capacity and making a difference to implement worldwide.
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