Rapid Reaction Webinar: The First Climate Judgments at the European Court of Human Rights, 13:00 CEST (Lausanne time)

In this short webinar, leading scholars and practitioners will offer their reactions and preliminary assessments of the very first decisions on climate change at the European Court of Human Rights.

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Friday 12 April 2024 - 13h00 to 14h10

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evelyne.schmid@unil.ch
Speaker(s): Evelyne Schmid University of Lausanne - Véronique Boillet University of Lausanne - Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh University of Amsterdam - Sonia I. Seneviratne ETH Zurich - Yann Robiou du Pont University of Utrecht - Corina Heri University of Zurich - Joie Chowdhury Center for International Environmental Law

Update: The recording of the webinar is available here: https://rec.unil.ch/videos/unil_webinar_climatejudgments/

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights decided the following three cases on the 9th April 2024:
Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, no. 53600/20
Carême v. France, no. 7189/21
Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 others, no. 39371/20

The audience will have the opportunity to ask some questions in the chat and the online event will be recorded. 

The roundtable will consist of:

  • Prof. Véronique Boillet, Professor of Constitutional Law, Human Rights and the Environment, University of Lausanne
  • Joie Chowdhury, LL.M. (Columbia Law School), Senior Attorney (Climate Litigation and Accountability) for the Center for International Environmental Law's Climate & Energy Program
  • Dr. Corina Heri, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, "Climate Rights and Remedies" research project
  • Dr. Yann Robiou du Pont, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Utrecht, researching how to quantify what are fair and ambitious emissions reductions and financial contributions from states, businesses and other actors to align with the Paris Agreement mitigation goals
  • Prof. Dr. Sonia I. Seneviratne, Deputy head of Inst. Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, coordinating lead author of the 6th assessment report of the IPCC (2018-2021)
  • Prof. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Associate Professor of Sustainability Law, University of Amsterdam, Counsel for Blue Ocean Law
  • Moderated by Prof. Evelyne Schmid, Professor of Public International Law, University of Lausanne; with Hana Drif, doctoral researcher, helping with the chat.

If you wish to prepare for the webinar, Rebecca Hamilton on Just Security recently wrote a blog post here which provides an excellent overview of the various ongoing international climate cases.

Published from 26 March 2024 to 12 April 2024
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