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The transition towards low-carbon societies is creating winners and losers, raising new questions of justice. Around the world, litigation increasingly articulates these justice questions, challenging laws, projects and policies that aim to deliver climate change adaptation and/or mitigation. In this Perspective, we define and conceptualize the phenomenon of ‘just transition litigation’. This conc
Between 2021 and 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the General Assembly passed resolutions explicitly acknowledging the ‘right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment’. These recognitions align with developments in the regional human rights frameworks that already enshrined this right. In the wake of these developments, the Council of Europe stands as an exception: it is t
In this episode, Viktor Weber speaks to Professor Michael Tsimplis from Hong Kong City University about shipping industry’s responses to the decarbonization challenge.
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise nearly half of mammalian genomes and have shaped genome architecture, chromatin organization, and transcriptional landscapes. Thanks to recent advances in long-read sequencing and functional (epi)genomics, the focus has shifted from TE families to individual TE loci, revealing widespread, locus-specific regulatory roles. While most TEs have lost the capacity to
In this episode, we speak to Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Founder and Executive Director of the Forum on Trade, Environment the SDGs (TESS) and Alessandro Monti, Assistant Professor in Energy and Sustainability Law at the University of Copenhagen, about policies and initiatives to strengthen sustainability in international trade law.
In this episode, we talk to Professor Harro van Asselt, leading expert on climate change law, about how international law can support the transition away from fossil fuels.
In this episode, we speak to Kees van der Geest, academic officer and Head of Environment and Migration section at the UN University, and Linnéa Nordlander, Assistant Professor of human rights and sustainability at the University of Copenhagen.
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Elena Cima, Lecturer at the University of Geneva, about the interaction between climate change and International Trade Law.
In this episode, we talk to Professor Martha M. Roggenkamp, Professor Emerita of Energy Law at the University of Groningen, about how climate change is affecting the development of Energy Law, also in light of the 2022 energy crisis.
In this episode, we talk to Professor Randall S. Abate, Assistant Dean for Environmental Law Studies at the George Washington University Law School about standing in climate change litigation.
In this episode, we talk to Adjunct Professor Bryce Rudyk, Director of the International Environmental Law Program, Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law at NYU School of Law, about Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and climate change.
The description: In this episode, we talk to Associate Professor David Boyd, Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment, about two recent developments in the relationship between human rights and climate change. The first is the UN General Assembly resolution on the right to clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. The second is the recent Torres Strait Islanders decision from the
In this episode, we speak to Martin Dietrich Brauch about the link between climate change and international investment treaties.
In this episode, we speak to Dr. Tristan Smith (Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources at the University College London Energy Institute), leading expert on maritime transport GHG emissions and the sector's energy transition.
In this episode, we speak to Professor Andreas Müller about the climate litigation case Mex M v. Austria, which was pending before the European Court of Human Rights at the time of recording.
In this episode, we speak to Professor Jacques Hartmann about human rights and climate change litigation at the European level. The conversation is based on the article he co-authored with Marc Willers QC, entitled ‘Protecting rights through climate change litigation before European courts’, published in the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.
