{"id":33132,"date":"2020-06-04T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=33132"},"modified":"2020-06-04T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T22:16:09","slug":"webinar-human-rights-strategies-in-climate-change-litigation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/webinar-human-rights-strategies-in-climate-change-litigation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Human Rights Strategies in Climate Change Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O<\/span>n Monday 8 June 16:00 CEST,\u00a0the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (<\/span>GNHRE) will launch a series of monthly webinars on\u00a0<\/span>\u2018Human Rights Strategies in Climate Litigation\u2019<\/span>. The series will bring together academic experts and practitioners involved in human-rights based climate change litigation, drawing on comparative insights from different regions. Each webinar will provide a perspective on how human rights-based climate litigation in India, Latin America, Europe, North America, the Pacific, and Africa.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The series will kick-start with a\u00a0<\/span>webinar<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span>Monday 8 June 16:00 CEST (10:00 AM NY time)<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>where renowned experts will introduce human rights strategies in climate litigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Joana<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Setzer<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(LSE) will shed light on the state of play on climate litigation globally, based on data gathered in the\u00a0<\/span>Grantham Institute litigation database.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Hari Osofsky<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Penn Law School) will describe the rights turn in climate litigation, explaining what human rights strategies are and what they are being used for.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tessa<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Khan<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Urgenda) will reflect on successes in human rights-based climate change litigation and their implications for future litigation.<\/span><\/div>\n
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David<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Boyd<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0will share insights from his interventions in climate change litigation, as part of the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To read the blogpost introducing the series, see:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/gnhre.org\/2020\/06\/02\/webinar-series-human-rights-strategies-in-climate-change-litigation-what-is-it-all-about\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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To register for the kick-off webinar, see:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/widener.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwkd\u2013trD0oHdwQ6iiOyGmwejEZGX6dphpt<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,19,21,7,12,13,8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}