Law, Governance & Climate Change

Saturday, December 6, 2014 12:00 AM EST (UTC–05:00)
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Scholars, policy-makers, experts, practitioners and stakeholders from all fields and disciplines are participating in this international law and policy workshop on emerging law and governance issues in research, policy and practices related to climate change and sustainable development.

David Estrin, research fellow with CIGI's International Law Research Program (ILRP), will participate in a session on human rights in the post-2015 climate change regime. Oonagh Fitzgerald, director of the ILRP at CIGI, will participate in the closing plenary.

Conveners: Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in cooperation with the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) at the University of Cambridge; the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP) of the University of Nairobi; the Centre for Climate Resilience Research (CR2) of the University of Chile; the Centre for Climate Justice and Chittagong University of Bangladesh; the Fundacion Ecos and St Clare’s College of Uruguay; the Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental of Peru (SPDA) and the Universidad Catolica of Peru and other partners.

Collaborating Partners: The Organization of American States, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Climate Change and the Law Community of Practice of the World Bank’s Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development, and others.