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SUMMARY:The potential of REDD+ as a Cooperative Approaches and the need for capacity building
DESCRIPTION:Recognizing the potential of REDD+ and how each party will incorporate REDD+ towards their NDC possibly through CA. With REDD+ expected to be implemented at a larger scale\, it is essential to identify the capacity-building requirements under current circumstances. \nSpeakers: Ms Sheam Satkuru (Executive Director\, ITTO)\, UN-REDD Programme\, Korea Forest Service\, Dr Hirata (REDD+ center\, Japan)\, Ms Cecile NDJEBET (REFACOF\, Cameroon)\, Prof Bambang (IPB\, Indonesia) and SERFOR (Peru). \nCOP27\, BlueZone\, Side Event\, Tutankhamon Room
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/the-potential-of-redd-as-a-cooperative-approaches-and-the-need-for-capacity-building/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T151500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T164500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T205114Z
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SUMMARY:Opportunities and challenges in the development of LTS in Latin America and the role of finance
DESCRIPTION:Share progress and good practices in the development of Long-Term Strategies in Latin America and discuss the role of climate finance to accelerate resilience and decarbonization\, highlighting the Peruvian experience. \nSpeakers: Min. of Env-Perú Min. of Env-Chile Min. of Env-Colombia Min. of Env-Argentina Climate Promise UNDP NDC Partnership Decarboost 2050 Pathways IADB. \nCOP27\, Blue Zone\, Side Event\, Tutankhamun Room
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/opportunities-and-challenges-in-the-development-of-lts-in-latin-america-and-the-role-of-finance/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T151500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T164500
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T202936Z
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SUMMARY:Sharing best practices and lessons learned from capacity building for implementation of Article 6
DESCRIPTION:For the robust implementation of Article 6\, it is important to strengthen support for capacity building and international coordination. To this end\, this event shares experience of the capacity building activities\, including institutional arrangement for authorization\, registry and A6 reporting. \nSpeakers: UN agencies\, research institutes\, Multilateral Development Banks\, Parties\, private sector being involved with Article 6 capacity building \nLocation: COP27\, Blue Zone\, Side Event\, Akhenaten Room
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/sharing-best-practices-and-lessons-learned-from-capacity-building-for-implementation-of-article-6/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T163000
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T205554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T205925Z
UID:3233-1668524400-1668529800@www.climatelawgovernance.org
SUMMARY:Towards a Robust VCM: Government Actions\, Private Sector Engagement\, and Carbon Market Integrity
DESCRIPTION:Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) is key to achieving the Paris Agreement goals. The side event will highlight recent developments in the VCM including discussions on carbon market integrity\, increasing efforts of the governments\, and engagements with the private sector to mobilize climate financing. \nSpeakers: Climate Change Center\, YoungSook Yoo and Choi Jai-chul; AORA\, Jin Yong Ho; ArtiECO\, Dae Bong KIM; Environmental Defense Fund\, Pedro Barata; Oeko-Institut\, Lambert Schneider; OPEMH\, Hajar Khamlichi; other experts from the government and international organizations \nCOP27\, Blue Zone\, Side Event\, Akhenaten Room
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/towards-a-robust-vcm-government-actions-private-sector-engagement-and-carbon-market-integrity/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T214119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T080825Z
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SUMMARY:Recognition of the Inherent Rights of Nature: A universal paradigm in defense of Mother Earth
DESCRIPTION:The “Recognition of the Inherent Rights of Nature” panel will be a hybrid event held at the Blue Zone of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh\, Egypt on November 15th\, 2022\, at 11H30 (UTC+2). \nInternationally recognized experts will convene at this panel to share and debate their views and experiences on emblematic cases of the Rights of Nature\, an innovative legal approach that recognizes ecosystems as subjects of rights. \nThe speakers will present cases all over the world\, from ones submitted to the International Rights of Nature Tribunal (“False solutions to the climate change crisis” and “The Amazon\, a threatened living entity”) to real cases happening in Ecuador (Los Cedros)\, in Spain (Mar Menor)\, and the possibility of a case in Mexico. \nThe convergence of initiatives happening around the planet implies a need to change the anthropocentric paradigm and adopt a new socio-ecosystemic perspective which recognizes that human beings are an inalienable part of Nature. \nHybrid Event as part of COP27. You can find more information here:  Recognition of the Inherent Rights of Nature: A universal paradigm in defense of Mother Earth – Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) \n  \n \nLOCATION: 12pm\, Area D Room 15
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/recognition-of-the-inherent-rights-of-nature-a-universal-paradigm-in-defense-of-mother-earth/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T203658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T204244Z
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SUMMARY:Enhancing climate action through rights-based\, gender-responsive\, and integrated approaches
DESCRIPTION:This session will provide a platform to unpack the findings of the review to address SRHR needs in the climate crisis at programme and policy levels and to advocate for more gender-responsive climate commitments in the NDCs\, and the need to bring young people to the forefront of policy dialogue. \nSpeaker(s): United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) \nCOP27\, Blue Zone\, Side Event\, Khufu Room
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/enhancing-climate-action-through-rights-based-gender-responsive-and-integrated-approaches/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T204115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T204253Z
UID:3226-1668511800-1668517200@www.climatelawgovernance.org
SUMMARY:Engaging Business\, Finance and Government in Climate Action and Solutions for Biodiversity
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: IIN\, ACBA\, CSABC\, and AWF will secure representative speakers who will speak to perspectives of IPLCs\, African and Chinese civil society\, government\, private sector\, development partners\, and others as appropriate. \nCOP27\, Blue Zone\, Side Event\, Thebes Room \n 
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/engaging-business-finance-and-government-in-climate-action-and-solutions-for-biodiversity/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T203531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T204311Z
UID:3222-1668511800-1668517200@www.climatelawgovernance.org
SUMMARY:Advancing Nationally Determined Contributions: Signs of Progress
DESCRIPTION:Developing countries will highlight their progress on the Paris Agreement with a focus on three themes: just transition; adaptation; and forests\, land and nature. Despite the challenges\, countries continue to enhance second generation NDCs and will share inspiring stories of bold action being taken. \nSpeaker(s): Mr. Achim Steiner\, UNDP | Mr. Ovais Sarmad\, UNFCCC | Hon Thérèse Coffey\, DEFRA UK | Pham Van Tan\, Vietnam | Madeleine Diouf Sarr\, LDC Chair | Cayetano Casado\, Green Climate Fund | Jochen Flasbarth\, State Secretary\, Germany | Hon. Matthew Samuda\, Jamaica | Ms. Arancha Soreng | Ms. Elizabeth Gulugulu \nOrganizers: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); International Labour Organization (ILO); Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) \nCOP27\, Side Event\, Blue Zone\, Hatshepsut Room
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/advancing-nationally-determined-contributions-signs-of-progress/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T203233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T220610Z
UID:3220-1668511800-1668517200@www.climatelawgovernance.org
SUMMARY:How can SIDS harness capacity building for Article 6 cooperation?
DESCRIPTION:SIDS have been bypassed by carbon markets in the past. How can this be prevented under Article 6? The side event discusses approaches to capacity building in SIDS involving North-South and South-South collaboration\, including simplification of methodologies and new activity types. \nSpeaker(s): Mod: Axel Michaelowa (University of Zurich and Perspectives Climate Research); Flavien Joubert (Minister of Agriculture\, Climate Change and Energy\, Rep. Seychelles); Kaja Weldner (PCR); Marie-May Jeremie\, Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust; Juliana Kessler (PCR); Stephan Hoch (PCR) \nCOP27\, Blue Zone\, Side Event\, Akhenaten Room
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/how-can-sids-harness-capacity-building-for-article-6-cooperation/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221114T131500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T144500
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221114T204832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T054359Z
UID:3229-1668431700-1668523500@www.climatelawgovernance.org
SUMMARY:Jointly combating the Climate and Biodiversity crises: the critical role of Nature-based Solutions
DESCRIPTION:At COP26\, UNFCCC Parties clearly recognised the interlinked crises of climate change and biodiversity loss\, and the critical role of nature in delivering benefits for both adaptation and mitigation. This session will explore how this can now be meaningfully operationalised with practical cases. \nSpeakers: Speakers will include high-level officials from IUCN’s State and NGO members\, donors and partners\, and other leading experts. \nCOP27\, Blue Zone\, Side Event\, Thebes
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/jointly-combating-the-climate-and-biodiversity-crises-the-critical-role-of-nature-based-solutions/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221114
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221009T222944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T205753Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Law and Governance Specialisation Course
DESCRIPTION:Climate Law and Governance Specialisation Course 2022: Training for International Certificate \nTo train a new generation of climate specialists worldwide capable of advancing climate law and governance and advocating for implementation\, the Climate Law and Governance Initiative hosted a half-day Climate Law and Governance Specialization Course. More than 400 learners registered for this year’s online course\, which was held on 13 November 2022 during the UNFCCC COP27. \nThe specialization course\, chaired by Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship\, University of Cambridge / Executive Secretary\, CLGI and Senior Director\, CISDL) and Maitre Ayman Cherkaoui (Lead Counsel\, CISDL / Director\, Hassan II International Centre for Enviro Training)\, focused on strengthening capacity for climate law and governance. The interactive\, intensive capacity-building course provided a foundational understanding of the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC and included sessions on Law\, Governance & Climate Mitigation; Climate Law & Governance on Adaptation\, Loss and Damage; and Climate Law & Governance on Finance\, Compliance & Transparency. The course featured lectures by leading global professors and experts Dr Markus Gehring (Lead Counsel\, CISDL / Associate Professor\, Univ Cambridge)\, Prof Michael Mehling (Deputy Director\, MIT Centre for Energy and Environment Research / Professor\, University of Strathclyde)\, Maitre Ayman Cherkaoui\, Adv M. Hafijul Islam Khan and Adv Wendy Miles KC. \nThree breakout sessions allowed participants to share country experiences and analyze climate law and policy approaches with colleagues from around the world. Nearly 170 participants successfully passed the post-course assessment and received a climate law and governance certification. These particiants were invited to join a global Registry which is part of a CLGI Glasgow COP26 Pledge to increase climate law and governance capacity from 600 to 6\,000 specialists by 2024. \nThe event has passed\, but registration had occurred via Eventbrite.
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/climate-law-and-governance-specialisation-course/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:past events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221112
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221009T223146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T205918Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Law and Governance Day
DESCRIPTION:Climate Law & Governance Day 2022 took place during UNFCCC COP27\, Entirely Online on Friday 11 November 2022. \nClimate Law and Governance Day 2022 built on a series of special events co-hosted by key partners from the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) during the UNFCCC climate conferences since the 2005 MOP1/COP11 in Montreal\, Canada to mobilise the international law and governance community to help implement the UNFCCC and most recently\, the Paris Agreement in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals. This global international symposium facilitated meaningful dialogue between COP delegates\, observers and stakeholders\, also keen students\, with an interest in national and international law and governance related to climate change\, including government representatives and leaders\, leading international and domestic legal practitioners\, and renowned legal experts. In partnership with local hosts from the Ain Shams University\, events occurred entirely online. \nClimate Law & Governance Day 2022 Themes \nFour key themes were identified in consultation with the CLGD Programme Committee from the vision set by Egypt as the UNFCCC CoP27 President. Each theme was led by a CLGI Chair: \n1. Operationalising the Paris Agreement: Exploring the challenges and opportunities of market and non-market mechanisms\, transparency frameworks\, compliance mechanisms\, loss and damage\, the Global Stocktake and other elements of operationalizing the Paris Agreement and other relevant international legal instruments. \n2. Testing Legal and Governance Tools for High Ambition Implementation: Innovating legal and governance instruments for climate mitigation\, adaptation and finance\, creating synergies within and across sectors\, and strengthening capacity amongst legislators\, policymakers and institutions\, in the context of pandemic recovery measures to help or hinder high ambition implementation of NDCs and LTSs under the Paris Agreement. \n3. Advancing Climate Resilience and Climate Justice: Engaging civil society and the legal community\, including courts and professionals\, in accelerating climate action\, enhancing transparency and ensuring accountability\, integrating rights-based approaches into climate actions\, advancing the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for loss and damage with effective structures including for financing actions to address loss and damage\, and climate migration. \n4. Net Zero Legal Frameworks to Enable Climate Neutral Investment and Finance: Exploring the legal tools and obstacles in promoting sustainable climate finance\, investment flows and global supply chains to implement the Paris Agreement\, including reductions in fossil fuel subsidies\, considering contributions of private international law\, international trade and investment law. \nThe Objectives of Climate Law & Governance Day 2022 were the following: \n1. To inspire and optimize legal and institutional reform for achieving current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement\, supporting the 2023 Global Stocktake efforts and increasing the ambition of the next round of NDCs. \n2. To profile and share innovative international\, national\, and local law and governance challenges\, mechanisms and good practices relating to global efforts to address climate change. \n3. To catalyse knowledge exchange and co-generate new climate law and governance scholarship\, insights and approaches\, facilitating new dialogue and partnerships. \n4. To strengthen capacity\, collaboration among the climate law and governance community of practice to implement the Doha Amendment\, Paris Agreement and COP outcomes\, supporting achievement of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). \nThe event has passed\, but registration had occurred via Eventbrite.
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/climate-law-and-governance-day/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:past events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221107
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
CREATED:20221009T223353Z
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SUMMARY:Pre-CoP Academic Climate Law Conference
DESCRIPTION:This Pre-CoP Academic Climate Law Conference is organized by our local hosts and partners\, at the Law School of Ain Shams University\, Cairo. More details coming soon.
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/pre-cop-academic-climate-law-conference/
CATEGORIES:upcoming
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220606T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220606T000000
DTSTAMP:20260510T234515
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SUMMARY:Strengthening Capacity to Deliver the 'Paris Rulebook' through Climate Law and Governance
DESCRIPTION:Bonn Climate Change Conference 2022 (SB 56): Strengthening Capacity to Deliver the ‘Paris Rulebook’ through Climate Law and Governance \nWould you like to share ideas on how to implement the Paris Agreement pledges & the rule book through law & governance innovation? Are you interested in networking with others on climate law & governance issues? Are you interested in helping to set the law & policy agenda towards COP27? \nDescription: Serious increases in capacity\, backed by awareness and engagement\, are needed to deliver Paris Agreement rules & pledges\, also advancing key SDG targets on education\, infrastructure & gender\, & justice. How to scale up fast? How can climate law & governance contribute\, especially across Africa and Europe\, setting the implementation agenda for CoP27 and beyond? \nCo-chairs: Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (Senior Director\, CISDL / Leverhulme Professor\, University of Cambridge) & Dr Floridea Di Ciommo (Co-Director\, cambiaMO | changing MObility) \nSpeakers: Adv Ayman Cherkaoui (Lead Counsel\, CISDL / Morocco); Adv Hafij Khan (Legal Fellow\, CISDL / ExCom Member\, Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage); Patricia Bohland (Co-Lead\, Life e.V.); Dr. Alexandra Masako Goossens-Ishii (Representative to the UN\, SGI); Mr. Michael Nwafejoku (President\, International Foundation for African Children)\,* \nClosing Remarks: Prof Ahmed Khalifa (Professor\, University of Ain Shams / Egypt)* & Dr M. Antonieta “Antoinette” Nestor (Coordinator\, CISDL Climate Law and Governance Initiative / Fellow\, University of Cambridge) \nNote: Participation is in person for accredited UNFCCC SB delegates. Parties and Observers can also join online by registering here\, through the UNFCCC Secretariat remote participation arrangements explained here. \nYou can find the full poster with QR code here: Bonn Side Event Poster_single_FINAL
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/strengthening-capacity-to-deliver-the-paris-rulebook-through-climate-law-and-governance/
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SUMMARY:Outcomes Statement - Climate Law and Governance Day 2021
DESCRIPTION:Please click here to download a PDF version of this Outcomes Statement\nAdvancing Legal & Policy Frameworks for Ambition\, Obligation & Finance\nClimate Law & Governance Initiative 2021\nDuring the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP26 \nBackground & Report on Outcomes – 09 Nov 2021\nLegal and institutional transformation is urgently required to support efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels; to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change; to foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development; and to make finance flows consistent with a pathway towards sustainable development. \n169 out of 186 countries have stressed the importance of legal and institutional reform in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the global response to climate change under the Paris Agreement. As 99 countries also emphasize in their NDCs\, increases in capacity and practice are crucial for implementation and compliance\, as new research by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)\, the University of Cambridge and other partners from Climate Law and Governance Initiative has shown. \nClimate finance in many forms\, if private and public law and governance can be mobilised at all levels to accelerate ambition and convert ambition to obligations\, is crucial in all respects. Indeed\, with many countries pledging net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner\, alignment of $130 trillion in finance with the Paris Agreement through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (Gfanz) before 2050\, and the Adaptation Fund renewed to higher levels than ever before\, law and governance improvements are needed now. For these pledges to meet reality\, binding regulations\, carefully crafted contracts\, disclosure obligations and thousands of other legal tools are required on all levels\, rebuilding trust\, accountability and compliance towards climate justice. \nAs Paris Agreement representatives\, observers and stakeholders gather in Glasgow for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) from 1-12 November 2021\, the world also convened a community of leading law faculties and legal institutes\, international organization counsel\, government authorities\, law associations\, judges\, professionals and others responsible for inspiring\, innovating and building law\, policy and governance capacity. \nThe Climate Law & Governance Day 2021 global symposium was held on 05 November 2021 during the UNFCCC COP 26 in Glasgow and attracted over 1\,100 registrants from over 120 countries in person and online across 16 world-class leading sessions and 3 high-level plenaries at the 2021 CLGD with thanks to the University of Glasgow. Co-hosted in the United Kingdom by the University of Glasgow\, the University of Cambridge and Strathclyde University\, together with the CISDL which hosts the CLGI Secretariat and the new NZLA\, which is certified as an Accelerator in the Race to Net Zero of the UK Presidency. CLGD 2021 provided an important opportunity to share ideas\, debate trends and advances\, and build legal momentum for climate action. \nCLGD 2021 builds on the success of CLGD 2005 at McGill University during COP11 in Montreal\, CLGD 2015 at La Sorbonne Law School during COP21 in Paris\, CLGD 2016 at the Université Privée de Marrakech and Hassane I University during COP22 in Marrakech\, CLGD 2017 with the University of the South Pacific at the University of Bonn during COP23 in Bonn\, CLGD 2018 at the University of Silesia in Katowice\, Poland\, and CLGD 2019 with the University of Chile at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Madrid\, Spain\, among other global events and engagements. \nThis global symposium also built on an extraordinary online pre-conference on climate law and public policy\, co-hosted in the University of Cambridge\, ‘Climate Change\, the SDGs and the Law’ on 29-30 October\, 2021\, which convened over 750 registrants from over 90 countries across two high-level plenaries and six experts panels\, engaging leading law professors together with early career scholars\, students and practitioners\, co-hosted by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and many other institutions in the University of Cambridge. \nTo share outcomes at COP26 itself\, on 06 November key municipal\, national\, and international innovations were shared in an official Side-Event on Net Zero Climate Law and Governance – Advancing Ambition and Action to Implement the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. The interactive roundtable brought together leading experts from the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance\, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and other partners of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative\, IKEM\, the Asociacion Ambiente y Sociedad and Centro Humboldt. \nFurther\, on 07 November 2021\, helping to train a new generation of specialists world-wide\, the Climate Law & Governance Specialization Course hosted in the University of Strathclyde certified 163 in person and virtual participants from around the world. Participants gained critical insights from renowned legal experts\, deepening their understanding of the legal and institutional mechanisms available to implement their NDCs and the Paris Agreement Indeed\, 163 practitioners\, scholars and junior members of delegations were certified and recognized as new Climate Law and Governance Specialists at the 2021 Climate Law and Governance Specialization Course\, with thanks to the University of Strathclyde\, the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law\, CISDL and other partners. \n Climate Law & Governance Day 2021 Addresses Crucial Challenges to the Law on Climate Change \nPartners in the Climate Law & Governance Initiative (CLGI)\, building on the vision set by the United Kingdom as UNFCCC COP26 President\, as informed by the UNFCCC Climate Dialogues – Climate Law and Governance Roundtable on 04 December 2020\, highlighted four key legal challenges facing the world: \n\nOperationalising the Paris Agreement: Addressing the challenges and opportunities of market and non-market mechanisms\, transparency frameworks\, compliance mechanisms\, loss and damage\, the Global Stocktake and other elements of operationalizing the Paris Agreement and other relevant international legal instruments.\nTesting Legal and Governance Tools for High Ambition Implementation: Innovating legal and governance instruments for climate mitigation\, adaptation and finance\, creating synergies within and across sectors\, and strengthening capacity amongst legislators\, policymakers and institutions\, in the context of pandemic recovery measures to help or hinder high ambition implementation of NDCs and LTSs under the Paris Agreement.\nAdvancing Climate Resilience and Climate Justice: Engaging civil society and the legal community\, including courts and professionals\, in accelerating climate action\, enhancing transparency and ensuring accountability\, integrating rights-based approaches into climate actions\, advancing the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for loss and damage with effective structures including for financing actions\, and climate migration.\nStrengthening Net Zero Legal Frameworks to Enable Climate Neutral Investment and Finance: Exploring the legal tools and obstacles in promoting sustainable climate finance\, investment flows\, structured finance\, and global supply chains to implement the Paris Agreement\, including reductions in fossil fuel subsidies\, considering contributions of private international law\, trade and investment law\, also commercial and corporate rules. \n\nClimate Law & Governance Day 2021 – Building Capacity for Legal Action on All Levels \n\nTo inspire and optimize legal and institutional reform for achieving current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement\, supporting the 2023 Global Stocktake efforts and increasing the ambition of NDCs.\nTo profile and share innovative international\, national\, and local law and governance challenges\, mechanisms and good practices relating to global efforts to address climate change.\nTo catalyse knowledge exchange and co-generate new climate law and governance scholarship\, insights and approaches\, facilitating new dialogue and partnerships.\nTo strengthen capacity\, collaboration among the climate law and governance community of practice to implement the Doha Amendment\, Paris Agreement and COP outcomes\, supporting achievement of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\n\nClimate Law and Governance Day 2021 will be followed by a global online Leverhulme Lecture and Distinguished Experts Dialogue on 01 December 2021\, to which all media is invited online. The CLGI Secretariat is hosted by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law based in McGill University (Canada)\, the University of Cambridge (UK)\, the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and the University of Chile (Chile).
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/outcomes-statement-climate-law-and-governance-day-2021/
CATEGORIES:past events
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SUMMARY:News Release & Outcomes Statement - Climate Law and Governance Day 2021
DESCRIPTION:Click here to download a PDF version of the News Release & Outcomes Statement from Climate Law and Governance Day 2021\n NEWS RELEASE \n Leading Experts at COP26 Commit to Scale-Up Climate Law & Governance Capacity Worldwide TENFOLD from 600 to 6\,000 by 2024\n (10 Nov 2021 Press Conference w Interviews on Offer)\n Of the 186 nationally determined contributions in the first-round of submissions\, 169 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) explicitly prioritized the need for legal or institutional reform to achieve their global contribution to climate change\, with 99 Parties calling for increasing capacity-building for action\, new legal research from the University of Cambridge and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) shows. \nThe first week of COP26 here in Glasgow has seen significant commitments by States and private sectors\, including many countries pledging net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner\, alignment of $130 trillion in finance with the Paris Agreement before 2050 through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (Gfanz)\, and the largest ever renewal of the Adaptation Fund. For Glasgow COP26 promises to be realized\, however\, we need binding regulations\, carefully crafted contracts\, disclosure obligations and thousands of other legal tools on all scales\, building trust\, accountability and climate justice. \nThe world’s climate law and governance community\, now more than ever\, needs to strengthen knowledge\, capacity and practice – exponentially.  \nIndeed\, “A massive capacity chasm is gaping in our path ahead\,” says Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge\, Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and Executive Secretary of the global Climate Law and Governance Initiative at COP26. “We need dynamic climate law and public policy specialists in every country\, capable and active in their bar associations\, universities\, firms and civil society\, making net zero a reality across the board. Climate law and public policy must be taught in every law school – backed by new research and training at all levels – for even a hope to implement the Paris Agreement and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.” \nDuring COP26 and beyond\, over 200 committed partners have come together through the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) to share lessons among a growing community of practice and chart the future for this critical field – actively engaging professors\, practitioners\, judges and other leaders from international organizations\, judiciaries\, institutes\, leading law firms and universities. In response to a global Call to scale up the desperately needed capacity\, CLGI partners co-hosted an online academic climate law and public policy preparatory conference on Climate Change\, the SDGs and the Law at the University of Cambridge\, with over 750 registrants from over 90 countries on 29-30 October. On Friday\, 05 November\, during COP26\, over 1\,100 registrants from over 120 countries joined in Climate Law and Governance Day (CLGD) 2021 hosted online and in-person at the University of Glasgow\, in partnership with Strathclyde and Cambridge universities\, for 3 high level plenaries and 16 substantive sessions spanning all aspects of law and climate change. The Day culminated in a celebration of the new laureates of the 2021 Climate Law & Governance Global Leadership Awards and the 2021 International  Student Essay Competition (see attached\, for Winners). \nTo share outcomes at COP26 itself\, on 06 November key municipal\, national\, and international legal innovations were shared in an Official Side-Event on Net Zero Climate Law and Governance – Advancing Ambition and Action to Implement the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. The interactive legal roundtable brought together leading experts from the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance\, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)\, Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS) and other partners of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative\, also IKEM\, the Asociacion Ambiente y Sociedad and Centro Humboldt. \nFurther\, on 07 November 2021\, helping to train a new generation of specialists world-wide\, the Climate Law & Governance Specialization Course hosted in the University of Strathclyde certified 163 in person and virtual participants from over 60 countries. \nOver this remarkable programme of climate law events\, CLGI Partners\, including leading university co-hosts\, CISDL\, GCILS\, the newly launched NZLA and many others united to bridge the legal capacity chasm\, calling on all firms\, faculties and foundations to widen the circle of climate law and governance professors and practitioners from 600 to 6\,000 in 2 years or less\, engaging qualified leaders in every legal system and converting ambition to obligation worldwide. \nTo arrange interviews or for further details\, at COP26 please contact: \nAdv Tejas Rao\, Associate Fellow and Programme Coordinator for Peace\, Justice and Governance\, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. M: +44 7900 279 365 E: tr465@cam.ac.uk \nAdv Freedom-Kai Phillips\, Operations Director and Legal Research Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. E: fkp22@cam.ac.uk \nANNEX I – FOR NEWS STORIES\, THE EXPERTS SAY…. \nAdv Wendy Miles\, QC\, CLGI Chair and a representative of the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance\, emphasized the role of commercial lawyers and law firms “to work with their clients as they transition to net zero and seek to mobilize the necessary finance to achieve that.” She encourages lawyers to innovate and utilize existing commercial law instruments to advance those client objectives. \nMaitre Ayman Cherkaoui\, CLGI Chair\, CISDL Lead Counsel and Ambassador\, Adaptation without Borders signaled the allocation of finance is crucial for adaptation as well\, noting “there are tricky legal issues on adaptation that will require countries to demonstrate a real spirit of multilateralism\, collaborating inside the negotiations\, and beyond\, to solve. Without this the 2030 Agenda commitment to “leave no one behind” may not be fulfilled.” \nProf Christina Voigt\, CLGI Chair\, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Chair and Co-Chair of the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee (PAICC) added a perspective from inside the Blue Zone\, noting that: “while these transitions toward a net-zero future continue\, the PAICC has been working hard to craft rules of procedure that would advance the implementation of the objectives contained in the Paris Agreement in a facilitative\, collaborative manner with Parties.” \nDr Giedre Jokubauskaite\, co-host of CLGD 2021 and a lecturer at the University of Glasgow said: “It was an honour to host this global effort\, with these historic advances – the international research and teaching partnerships created here will contribute to key advances in climate legal capacity for Scotland.” \nAdv Douglas Leys\, QC\, receiving the Global Leadership Award as a General Counsel for his world-leading efforts in the Green Climate Fund. Giving thanks to his family and GCF colleagues\, he underlined: “this Award acknowledges the leadership role that multilateral development banks can take in building climate resilient futures.” \n FOR INTERVIEWS AT COP26\, Climate Law & Governance Initiative Executive Secretary\, Chairs and Hosts: \n\nProfessor Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger\, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge\, Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law\, and Full Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo. E: mccs2@cam.ac.uk\nProfessor Dr Christina Voigt\, Professor of Law at the University of Oslo\, Chair of the Climate Change Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law\, and Co-Chair of the Paris Agreement’s Implementation and Compliance Committee. E: voigt@jus.uio.no\nMaitre Ayman Cherkaoui\, Lead Counsel for Climate Change at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law\, and Coordinator of Strategic Development for the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection in Rabat\, Morocco. E: acherkaoui@cisdl.org\nAdv M. Hafijul Islam Khan\, Executive Director of the Centre for Climate Justice Bangladesh\, climate negotiator with the Least Developed Countries Group\, and Research Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. E: khan@uwaterloo.ca\nAdv Wendy Miles QC\, founder of the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance\, International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration Vice-President\, Twenty Essex Chambers Barrister and Global Climate Law Leadership Award Laureate. E: wmiles@twentyessex.com\nDr Giedre Jokubauskaite\, co-host of the Climate Law and Governance Day 2021 and Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow\, UK. E: jokubauskaite@glasgow.ac.uk\nRebecca Williams\, co-host of the Climate Law and Governance Day 2021\, Interim Director of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance\, and Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde\, UK. E: williams@strath.ac.uk\n\n ANNEX II – WINNERS OF THE 2021 CLIMATE LAW & GOVERNANCE AWARDS \nEach COP\, CLGI Partners recognize the leading efforts of climate law and governance practitioners and scholars\, and this year’s 2021 Climate Law & Governance Global Leadership Awards recognized the efforts of: \n\nClimate Law Practitioner: DLA Piper’s Steven Gray for helping to found the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance and for his efforts to engage junior associates and law students in the practice of climate law;\nClimate Negotiator: Maitre Paul Watkinson\, senior negotiator of France\, for his engagement and inclusion efforts as Co-Chair of SBSTA\, also his profound technical expertise and extraordinary efforts in the drafting of the Paris Agreement;\nClimate General Counsel: Adv Douglas Leys\, QC for his excellent service to the world’s climate finance community in the Green Climate Fund\, and for his outstanding partnership-building across the Commonwealth and with legal stakeholders worldwide;\nClimate Law Community Leader: Adv Lucy Maxwell and all her colleagues for their continued inspiring efforts in the Climate Litigation Network and the Urgenda Foundation; and\nClimate Law Faculty Leader: Prof Rosa Fernandez Egea on behalf of the Autonomous University of Madrid Faculty of Law in Spain and Prof Pilar Moraga on behalf of the University of Chile Faculty of Law\, for their extraordinary efforts to co-host and inspire research\, students and the global climate law community.\n\nThe 2021 Climate Law & Governance Student Essay Competition featured submissions from students across the world\, with warmest of congratulations to the laureates: \n\nStefan Prelevic (University of Melbourne\, Australia) and Marcelo Molina Villalobos (University of Chile) won Platinum for outstanding essays on “Child Rights and Climate Change: Legislative Avenues for Australian Children” and “La Judicializacion del Cambio Climatico a traves del Derecho Internacional del Mar”.\nJacob Bohill (University of Glasgow\, UK) and Anita Lucchini (Trento University\, Italy) won Gold for excellent essays on “Analyzing Practical and Legal Challenges in the Retention of Small Island Developing State Statehood” and “The (Un)Sustainability of Central Banks Collateral Frameworks: A Carbon Bias.”\nLarissa Parker (McGill University\, Canada) and Elena Bonfiglio (Swiss Italian University\, Switzerland) won Silver for their inspiring essays on “Latest developments in emission trading” and “Beyond non-justifiability for public interest climate litigation.”\n\n Advancing Legal & Policy Frameworks for Ambition\, Obligation & Finance\n Climate Law & Governance Initiative 2021\n During the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP26 \n Background & Report on Outcomes – 09 Nov 2021\nLegal and institutional transformation is urgently required to support efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels; to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change; to foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development; and to make finance flows consistent with a pathway towards sustainable development. \n169 out of 186 countries have stressed the importance of legal and institutional reform in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the global response to climate change under the Paris Agreement. As 99 countries also emphasize in their NDCs\, increases in capacity and practice are crucial for implementation and compliance\, as new research by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)\, the University of Cambridge and other partners from Climate Law and Governance Initiative has shown. \nClimate finance in many forms\, if private and public law and governance can be mobilised at all levels to accelerate ambition and convert ambition to obligations\, is crucial in all respects. Indeed\, with many countries pledging net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner\, alignment of $130 trillion in finance with the Paris Agreement through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (Gfanz) before 2050\, and the Adaptation Fund renewed to higher levels than ever before\, law and governance improvements are needed now. For these pledges to meet reality\, binding regulations\, carefully crafted contracts\, disclosure obligations and thousands of other legal tools are required on all levels\, rebuilding trust\, accountability and compliance towards climate justice. \nAs Paris Agreement representatives\, observers and stakeholders gather in Glasgow for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) from 1-12 November 2021\, the world also convened a community of leading law faculties and legal institutes\, international organization counsel\, government authorities\, law associations\, judges\, professionals and others responsible for inspiring\, innovating and building law\, policy and governance capacity. \nThe Climate Law & Governance Day 2021 global symposium was held on 05 November 2021 during the UNFCCC COP 26 in Glasgow and attracted over 1\,100 registrants from over 120 countries in person and online across 16 world-class leading sessions and 3 high-level plenaries at the 2021 CLGD with thanks to the University of Glasgow. Co-hosted in the United Kingdom by the University of Glasgow\, the University of Cambridge and Strathclyde University\, together with the CISDL which hosts the CLGI Secretariat and the new NZLA\, which is certified as an Accelerator in the Race to Net Zero of the UK Presidency. CLGD 2021 provided an important opportunity to share ideas\, debate trends and advances\, and build legal momentum for climate action. \nCLGD 2021 builds on the success of CLGD 2005 at McGill University during COP11 in Montreal\, CLGD 2015 at La Sorbonne Law School during COP21 in Paris\, CLGD 2016 at the Université Privée de Marrakech and Hassane I University during COP22 in Marrakech\, CLGD 2017 with the University of the South Pacific at the University of Bonn during COP23 in Bonn\, CLGD 2018 at the University of Silesia in Katowice\, Poland\, and CLGD 2019 with the University of Chile at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Madrid\, Spain\, among other global events and engagements. \nThis global symposium also built on an extraordinary online pre-conference on climate law and public policy\, co-hosted in the University of Cambridge\, ‘Climate Change\, the SDGs and the Law’ on 29-30 October\, 2021\, which convened over 750 registrants from over 90 countries across two high-level plenaries and six experts panels\, engaging leading law professors together with early career scholars\, students and practitioners\, co-hosted by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and many other institutions in the University of Cambridge. \nTo share outcomes at COP26 itself\, on 06 November key municipal\, national\, and international innovations were shared in an official Side-Event on Net Zero Climate Law and Governance – Advancing Ambition and Action to Implement the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. The interactive roundtable brought together leading experts from the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance\, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and other partners of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative\, IKEM\, the Asociacion Ambiente y Sociedad and Centro Humboldt. \nFurther\, on 07 November 2021\, helping to train a new generation of specialists world-wide\, the Climate Law & Governance Specialization Course hosted in the University of Strathclyde certified 163 in person and virtual participants from around the world. Participants gained critical insights from renowned legal experts\, deepening their understanding of the legal and institutional mechanisms available to implement their NDCs and the Paris Agreement Indeed\, 163 practitioners\, scholars and junior members of delegations were certified and recognized as new Climate Law and Governance Specialists at the 2021 Climate Law and Governance Specialization Course\, with thanks to the University of Strathclyde\, the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law\, CISDL and other partners. \n Climate Law & Governance Day 2021 Addresses Crucial Challenges to the Law on Climate Change \nPartners in the Climate Law & Governance Initiative (CLGI)\, building on the vision set by the United Kingdom as UNFCCC COP26 President\, as informed by the UNFCCC Climate Dialogues – Climate Law and Governance Roundtable on 04 December 2020\, highlighted four key legal challenges facing the world: \n\nOperationalising the Paris Agreement:Addressing the challenges and opportunities of market and non-market mechanisms\, transparency frameworks\, compliance mechanisms\, loss and damage\, the Global Stocktake and other elements of operationalizing the Paris Agreement and other relevant international legal instruments.\nTesting Legal and Governance Tools for High Ambition Implementation:Innovating legal and governance instruments for climate mitigation\, adaptation and finance\, creating synergies within and across sectors\, and strengthening capacity amongst legislators\, policymakers and institutions\, in the context of pandemic recovery measures to help or hinder high ambition implementation of NDCs and LTSs under the Paris Agreement.\nAdvancing Climate Resilience and Climate Justice:Engaging civil society and the legal community\, including courts and professionals\, in accelerating climate action\, enhancing transparency and ensuring accountability\, integrating rights based approaches into climate actions\, advancing the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for loss and damage with effective structures including for financing actions\, and climate migration.\nStrengthening Net Zero Legal Frameworks to Enable Climate Neutral Investment and Finance:Exploring the legal tools and obstacles in promoting sustainable climate finance\, investment flows\, structured finance and global supply chains to implement the Paris Agreement\, including reductions in fossil fuel subsidies\, considering contributions of private international law\, trade and investment law\, also commercial and corporate rules. \n\nClimate Law & Governance Day 2021 – Building Capacity for Legal Action on All Levels \n\nToinspire and optimize legal and institutional reform for achieving current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement\, supporting the 2023 Global Stocktake efforts and increasing the ambition of NDCs.\nTo profile and shareinnovative international\, national\, and local law and governance challenges\, mechanisms and good practices relating to global efforts to address climate change.\nTo catalyse knowledge exchange and co-generate new climate law and governance scholarship\, insights and approaches\, facilitating new dialogue and partnerships.\nTo strengthen capacity\, collaboration among the climate law and governance community of practice to implement the Doha Amendment\, Paris Agreement and COP outcomes\, supporting achievement of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\n\nClimate Law and Governance Day 2021 will be followed by a global online Leverhulme Lecture and Distinguished Experts Dialogue on 01 December 2021\, to which all media is invited online. The CLGI Secretariat is hosted by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law based in McGill University (Canada)\, the University of Cambridge (UK)\, the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and the University of Chile (Chile).
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SUMMARY:2021 Climate Law & Governance Student Essay Competition Winners Announced
DESCRIPTION:The winners of the 2021 Global Climate Law & Governance Student Essay Competition were announced at a special awards ceremony during Climate Law & Governance Day on 5 November 2021 at the University of Glasgow. We are delighted to announce the list of winners below\, with links to their brilliant contributions. Congratulations to every student who participated. \n\n\n\nStudent’s Name \nLink to Essay \nSchool/Country \nRank \n\n\nStefan Prelevic\nChild Rights and Climate Change: Litigative Avenues for Australian Children\nUniversity of Melbourne/Australia\nPlatinum\n\n\nMarcelo Molina Villalobos\nLa Judicialización del Cambio Climático a través del Derecho Internacional del Mar\nUniversidad de Chile/Chile\nPlatinum\n\n\nJacob Bohill\nAnalysing practical and legal challenges in the retention of Small Island Developing State statehood\, considering predicted climate driven submersion or inhabitability of territory\nUniversity of Glasgow/UK\nGold\n\n\nAnita Lucchini\nThe (un)sustainability of central banks collateral frameworks: A carbon bias\nUniversity of Trento/ Italy\nGold\n\n\nLarissa Parker\nBeyond Non-Justiciability for Public Interest Climate Litigation\nMcGill University/Canada\nSilver\n\n\nElena Bonfiglio\nLatest development in emission trading\nUniversità della Svizzera Italiana/ Switzerland\nSilver\n\n\nAymeric Bricout\nClimate justice as a prerequisite for ensuring the success of emission reduction policies\nImperial College/UK\nJudges’ Commendation\n\n\nJanhvi\nA Behavioural Perspective: Urban Climate Policies and Plans\nSchool of Planning and Architecture\, Delhi/India\nJudges’ Commendation\n\n\nDinita Setyawati\nThe Pursuit of Justice for Indigenous People through Climate Change Agendas in Indonesia\nKyoto University/Japan\nJudges’ Commendation\n\n\nErin Gallagher\nThe Paris Agreement and Domestic Climate Litigation\nUniversity of Strathclyde/UK\nJudges’ Commendation\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/2021-climate-law-governance-student-essay-competition-winners-announced/
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SUMMARY:Official COP26 Side Event on Net Zero Climate Law & Governance: Advancing Ambition & Action for Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contributions & National Adaptation Plans
DESCRIPTION:View the Full Side Event Programme here\n  \n \nInteractive\, online roundtable highlighting net zero climate law & governance innovations to strengthen Paris Agreement ambition\, markets\, transparency & compliance\, celebrate new research\, capacity & practice stakeholder partnerships & global leaders awards to implement Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) & National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) to advance key SDGs. \nLegal and institutional transformation is urgently required to support efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels; to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change; to foster climate resilience & low greenhouse gas emissions development & to make finance flows consistent with a pathway towards sustainable development in accordance with the Paris Agreement. Over 165 out of 188 countries have stressed the importance of legal & institutional reform in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the global response to climate change under the Paris Agreement. As over 60 countries also emphasize in their NDCs\, increases in law & governance capacity & practice are crucial for compliance. Climate finance in many forms\, recognising the key role of private & public law\, also public policy & governance at all levels in accelerating ambition & in converting ambition to obligation\, is crucial in all respects. \nThis side-event features briefings & interactive dialogue with senior counsel & experts from international organizations & institutions\, leading institutes & universities of different regions\, also international practice networks / associations\, including the ‘accelerator’ Net Zero Lawyers Alliance\, the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law & other partners of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative\, IKEM\, Climate Action Network – Latin America\, Asociacion Ambiente y Sociedad & Centro Humboldt. \n \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/official-cop26-side-event-on-net-zero-climate-law-governance-advancing-ambition-action-for-paris-agreement-nationally-determined-contributions-national-adaptation-plans/
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the 2021 Global Leadership Award Winners in Climate Law and Governance!
DESCRIPTION:The second-ever Climate Law and Governance Global Leadership Awards were announced in a special awards ceremony at Climate Law and Governance Day 2021\, held at the University of Glasgow during COP26.\n \nWinners are listed below: \nAward Winner – General Counsel: Green Climate Fund\, accepted by Adv Douglas Leys\, QC \nAdv Douglas Leys\, QC is the Green Climate Fund’s General Counsel. He has accumulated extensive experience in the public and private sectors\, including several decades of service with the Solicitor-General’s Office in Jamaica. This culminated in his appointment as Jamaica’s Solicitor General\, before moving to GCF. He holds the rank of Queen’s Counsel\, a position reserved for persons who have distinguished themselves at the bar in the Commonwealth. \nAward Winner – Civil Society: Adv Lucy Maxwell and colleagues from the Climate Litigation Network and Urgenda Foundation \n \nLucy Maxwell is a human rights lawyer and Senior Legal Associate at the Climate Litigation Network\, a project of the Urgenda Foundation. Lucy provided support to the legal team for the claimants in the People v Arctic Oil case. \n \nAward Winner – Private Law Firms:  DLA Piper\, accepted by Adv Steven Gray \n\nAdv Steven Gray is a public international lawyer with 18 years of experience in climate change policy and regulation. He works with lawyers across a number of practice areas to provide advice on climate regulation\, carbon pricing\, climate risk integration and climate-related disclosure. He also supports clients develop strategies\, identify and manage sustainability and ESG risks across project finance\, asset and resource allocation\, due diligence\, governance\, compliance\, policies and processes. \nDLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas\, Europe\, the Middle East\, Africa and Asia Pacific\, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.  For the eleventh consecutive year\, DLA Piper earned the number one ranking globally for overall deal volume in 2020\, according to Mergermarket’s league tables for legal advisors. \n\n \nAward winner – Top University and Law Faculty: Autonomous University of Madrid\, together with the University of Chile\, and accepted by Prof Rosa Fernandez Egea (UAM) \n \nRosa M. Fernández Egea holds a PhD in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2007) with a doctoral thesis: Free movement of goods and environmental protection in the WTO (published by Marcial Pons\, 2008) and a Master in European Community Law from the same University (1999). He has researched in various foreign centres\, including at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg (2004-2005)\, at the WTO headquarters in Geneva (2002\, 2003) and at the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law (2008). Professor Fernández Egea has been the beneficiary of several competitive scholarships (FPU Fellow and Fellow of the Deutsche akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD)/La Caixa program). She is currently an assistant professor of Public International Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid. \n \nAward winner – Climate Negotiator: Adv Paul Watkinson\, recent co-Chair of the UNFCCC SBSTA \n \n\n\nPaul Watkinson has been working on climate change and sustainable development issues for more than 20 years\, for much of that time as Chief Negotiator and Head of the Climate Negotiations Team for the French Ministry of Ecological and Solidary Transition. He currently occupies a post as Counsellor to the Director for International and European Affairs in the Ministry and is a member of the management board of the French interministerial climate team. \nAn experienced international negotiator\, he has a detailed knowledge not just of the technical issues but also of the negotiating mechanics\, the key actors\, and the workings of the UN Climate Convention\, the Kyoto Protocol\, and the Paris Agreement. He has long experience of running teams in a project mode\, drawn from different ministries or even countries. At the end of the UN Climate Conference in Bonn\, in November 2017\, he was elected Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) for the coming year and a member of the bureau of COP23. Between 2014 and 2016 he was a member of the management group of the French interministerial team that prepared and ran COP21 in 2015 with responsibility for coordinating the negotiation of the Paris Agreement. \n\n\n \nWarmest congratulations again to all award winners. Learn more about Climate Law & Governance Day 2021 here\, or email us at climatelawgovernance@cisdl.org.
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SUMMARY:Global Landscape Forum Climate: Frontiers of Change
DESCRIPTION:GLF Climate: Forests\, Food\, Finance – Frontiers of Change\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Earth is in crisis. On top of a global pandemic that has claimed millions of lives and wreaked economic havoc\, the climate emergency is worsening as the world witnesses record-high temperatures\, widespread drought\, wildfires and increasingly unpredictable floods. \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussions at one of the most important climate summits in history\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nWith the UK Government\, GLF is convening this event on the sidelines of one of the most important climate summits in history\, the 26th session of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to accelerate action on land management and meet climate goals. \n\n\n\n\n\nOn November 5-7\, be inspired by local climate heroes; hear the voices of local stewards and Indigenous Peoples\, and gain and share knowledge on the themes of forests\, food and finance for a more sustainable future. The conference will bring together GLF’s community of 250\,000 people from 185 countries. Over three days we will examine country commitments\, while addressing the real barriers that hamper landscape progress\, while showcasing action on climate-smart landscapes. Coverage in English\, Spanish and French. \nRegister here: https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/climate-2021/
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and the Economy: What COP26 Needs to Know
DESCRIPTION:With the climate clock ticking\, two of Cambridge’s leading economists discuss what leaders at COP26 need to know – and do – to deliver a clean\, green recovery. Will climate policy increase inequality? Can the public finances support pandemic recovery and climate action simultaneously? This event is part of the 2021 University of Cambridge Alumni Festival. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nDr Matthew Agarwala\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Agarwala is an economist interested in wealth-based approaches to measuring and delivering sustainability\, wellbeing\, and productivity. His research is motivated by the belief that 20th century statistics can’t capture 21st century progress. Matthew leads the Bennett Institute’s Wealth Economy project\, which seeks to transform economic measurement to better reflect sustainability\, inequality\, and human wellbeing. \nMatthew regularly consults for governments and scientific organizations on topics of natural capital\, ecosystem services\, wellbeing\, and sustainability. He enjoys working across sectors and disciplines\, and his co-authors include ecologists\, economists\, conservation scientists and practitioners\, social anthropologists\, civil servants\, members of UK Parliament\, and Nobel Laureates in peace\, medicine\, physics\, and chemistry. Beyond Cambridge\, Matthew maintains active research networks in Canada\, Hong Kong\, Germany\, USA\, Japan\, and throughout the UK. He is a regular media contributor (Bloomberg\, NYTimes\, FT\, Guardian\, Times\, Channel 4 News). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Cristina Peñasco\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Cristina Peñasco is a University Lecturer in Public Policy at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge and the Programme Director of the MPhil in Public Policy. She is an associate researcher at the Bennet Institute and at C-EENRG. Her research lines bring together multidisciplinary research in environmental economics\, innovation policy and energy economics in green and energy efficiency technologies\, with a focus on the policy instruments enabling the transition to low-carbon economies. She has published prolifically in world-class journals such as Nature Climate Change\, The Journal of Cleaner Production\, Energy Policy or Business Strategy and the Environment\, among others. \nShe has participated in several European-funded projects on renewable energy support schemes in the EU as well as in a range of Spanish and UK funded projects. As part of her current research activity\, she is working on a project called Innovation Pathways for a Low-carbon Transition (INNOPATHS)\, funded in the EC’s Horizon2020 framework. For that project\, she has designed an online Decarbonsation Policy Evaluation Tool intended to be a helpful reference for policy makers and academics as it allows them to foresee possible trade-offs and co-benefits in environmental policy. She is also co-leading the work analysing the empirical evidence for general principles for policy making in the Economics of Energy Innovation and Systems Transitions (EEIST) project funded by the BEIS (UK Government) which develops complexity-based modelling solutions to support decision making around low-carbon innovation and technological change to facilitate low-carbon transitions. \n\n\n\n\n\nBooking information\n\n\n\nBooking for this event will close on Monday 27 September 2021\, 9.00am BST. \n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:2019 CLGI and COP25 Year in Review
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, CLGI in collaboration with partners\, coordinated a diverse programme of events in the lead up to and alongside COP25 in Madrid\, Spain. \nLegal Roundtable in Bonn – 22 June 2019 \nEach year during the Subsidiary Bodies meetings in Bonn\, the CLGI Secretariat convenes a roundtable discussion with some of its core partners to determine research priorities on climate law and governance\, focus in depth on a selected current topic and to identify suitable themes for the upcoming CLGD. Read about the 2019 legal roundtable here. \nCatalysing Knowledge-sharing at PreCOP25 in Costa Rica \nThis year\, CLGI in collaboration with the University of Costa Rica and the OEA held an official side event at PreCOP25 on nature-based solutions and human rights approaches for enhancing climate action. CLGI and the University of Costa Rica also hosted an academic event alongside the PreCOP addressing different critical aspects of Paris Agreement implementation at the international level\, and the legal implications of the Agreement for Costa Rica. Learn more here. \n \nPromoting Capacity Building at COP25 – 4 December at COP25 \nCLGI convened a session on Creating Climate Law Capacity for Compliance – Advancing Legal and Governance Capacity-Building to Support Paris Agreement Implementation as part of Capacity Building Day at the 2nd Capacity Building Hub at COP25. The session\, chaired by CLGI Executive Secretary Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger\, featured experts speakers Dr. Alexandra Harrington (Lead Counsel & Research Director\, CISDL / Fulbright Fellow\, BSIA)\, Adv. Ayman Cherkaoui (Lead Counsel\, CISDL / Coord\, Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection)\, Dr. Saleem Huq (Director\, ICCCAD / Dr. Mizan R Khan – Deputy Director\, ICCCAD\, Mr. Miguel Saldivia (PhD Candidate\, University of Cambridge / CLGI) and Ms. Emily Morison (Co-ordinator\, CLGI Secretariat). Read more here. \n \nHighlighting Opportunities for Achieving Climate Ambition and Implementation through Legal Change – 5 December at COP25  \nIt was standing room only at the COP25 UK Pavilion on 5 December for two experts panels analysing how law can require climate mitigation\, adaptation and finance outcomes\, send signals to markets\, and incentivise transition. The panels provided a briefing on recent climate law innovations from different countries including the UK\, surveyed progress and lessons learned\, and discussed their impacts\, showcasing the UK’s global leadership in enhancing climate ambition. Read the draft report for the event here. \n \nClimate Law & Governance Day 2019 – 6 December at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid \nBuilding on past successes\, CLGD brings together diverse stakeholders alongside the UNFCCC COP each year to combine perspectives and solutions to the complex challenges of addressing climate change to feed back into the UNFCCC negotiation and implementation processes. Our diverse set of partners host roundtables\, workshops and plenary debates on timely issues and innovative ideas. \nOn Friday 6 December 2019\, on Spain’s historic National Constitution Day (Día de la Constitución)\, participants from across the world gathered at the Faculty of Law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid for the 5th annual Climate Law & Governance Day (CLGD) symposium alongside the UNFCCC COP25 in Madrid\, Spain\, marking the event the biggest since the inaugural CLGD in Paris alongside COP21 in 2015. Insights from the day were canvassed at a special briefing at the UNFCCC Pavilion at COP25 on 10 December. Read more about CLGD 2019 here. \nIf you are interested in showcasing your work or being involved in CLGD\, please contact the CLGI Secretariat at climatelawgovernance@cisdl.org. \n \nLegal innovations for Sustainable Investments and Resilient Oceans: Official Side Event with the UNFCCC Secretariat – 7 December at COP25 \nLeading legal experts highlighted opportunities for enhancing Paris Agreement compliance & innovation through international and domestic law reform. The event provided a briefing on ecosystems-based solutions & ocean governance; and on how market-based instruments\, financial regulations & investment laws can facilitate implementation of the Paris Agreement. Learn more and watch the video from the event here. \n \nIntroducing Online Participation at the Climate Law & Governance Specialisation Course 2019 – 8 December 2019 \nOn 8 December 2019\, candidates registered from over 20 countries for an in-person and online 2019 Climate Law and Governance Specialisation Course at La Fundación para la Investigación sobre el Derecho y la Empresa (FIDE)\, in Madrid\, Spain. Instructors and learners from Chile\, Spain\, Switzerland\, Germany\, Peru\, Morocco\, Bangladesh South Africa\, Norway\, the United States\, the United Kingdom\, Liberia\, Sweden\, Canada\, Colombia\, Australia\, Japan\, India and other countries took part\, with nearly 80 new specialists receiving their certification at the day’s end. Read more here. \n \nInterested in learning more\, or being involved in future CLGI events? Contact us at climatelawgovernance@cisdl.org.
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SUMMARY:Climate Law and Governance Specialisation Course at COP26
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nClimate Law and Governance Specialisation Course 2021: Training for International Certificate\n \n \n2021 CLG Specialization Course Certificate Recipients \n \n____________________________________________ \nCall for Participants: Now Archived\nRegister HERE while spaces are available!  \nSeeking an international specialisation in climate law and governance? Through this half-day course during UNFCCC COP\, earn a certification from the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)\, with leading speakers from UN-Environment\, the IUCN\, the EBRD and other partners\, taught by top experts from the Universities of Cambridge\, McGill\, MIT\, Oslo and others. \nLaws and institutions are crucial instruments for promoting sustainable development\, making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low-carbon and climate-resilient systems\, and ensuring full implementation of the Paris Agreement. \nIn order to share knowledge and strengthen capacity on legal and institutional climate reforms and frameworks\, the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI)\, which also coordinates the annual Climate Law and Governance Day knowledge-sharing symposium\, convenes this specialisation course with the support of key partners. Building on the specialisation course provided during UNFCCC COP 25\, COP24 and COP23\, this one of a kind training course takes place during the CoP26 on Sunday\, 7 November 2021. \nThis interactive\, intensive capacity-building course will provide an opportunity for candidates to: \n\nLearn from the insights of renowned legal experts\, deepening their understanding of the legal and institutional mechanisms available to implement their NDCs and the Paris Agreement\nBe introduced to crucial legal and governance challenges and opportunities\, including how laws can strengthen mitigation\, adaptation and resilience\, and promote climate finance\, compliance and transparency under the Paris Agreement\, also activate loss and damage mechanisms and address human rights concerns.\n\nLink to register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-law-and-governance-specialization-course-tickets-154029880519 \n 
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SUMMARY:Climate Law and Governance Day 2021 at COP26
DESCRIPTION:Invitation to Register: Climate Law and Governance Day 2021\n \n\nClick here for the Full Programme for Climate Law and Governance Day 2021 featuring 16 world-class hybrid sessions.\n \nClick here to register for Climate Law and Governance Day 2021\, which will be held for the first time online this year\, as well as in person\, on Friday 05 November at the University of Glasgow during the UNFCCC CoP26.\n  \nAre you interested in emerging issues and innovations in climate law and governance? Could your climate law and governance work benefit from sharing knowledge\, research\, innovations and experiences either in-person or remotely during the UNFCCC CoP26 in Glasgow this November 2021? Are you willing to network and open opportunities for new collaborations on legal and institutional aspects of global response to climate change? Would you like to learn from leading research and initiatives in the field\, or disseminate your work to a broad audience of COP26 delegates\, observers\, specialists and brilliant student leaders Are you seeking to connect with specialist law and governance support to address key issues for your country or community related to climate change? Would your efforts benefit from access to innovative legal and institutional tools to advance ambitious climate action? \nIf yes\, click here to register for Climate Law and Governance Day 2021\, which will be held for the first time online this year\, as well as in person\, on Friday 05 November at the University of Glasgow during the UNFCCC CoP26 in partnership with the University of Cambridge and Strathclyde University as co-hosts. Places may be limited\, and registrants will receive updates and further opportunities\, so please do register early. Please click here for more information. \nClimate Law & Governance Day 2021 will take place during UNFCCC COP26 on Friday 05 November 2021\, featuring world-class leading experts including Adv Douglas Leys (General Counsel\, Green Climate Fund)\, Prof David Boyd (UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment)\, Prof Christina Voigt (Chair\, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law / Co-Chair\, Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee / University of Oslo)\, Adv Wendy Miles QC (Chair\, CLGI Commercial Law / Barrister\, Twenty Essex / Representative\, Net Zero Lawyers Alliance)\, Dr Jan Beagle (Director-General\, International Development Law Organization)\, and Adv Michael Strauss (General Counsel\, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development) invited among other keynote speakers.  \nClimate Law and Governance Day 2021 will feature 16 in-person and online sessions hosted by international organizations\, country delegations\, foundations\, law associations and firms\, law faculties and many other leading climate law and governance actors\, provides an important point for the global climate law and governance community to meet\, share ideas and build new innovative collaborations to tackle climate change and implement the Paris Agreement across international and domestic regulation\, climate litigation\, legal scholarship\, and commercial practice circles (see below for list of sessions). Over 160 session co-hosts and partners including the International Law Association\, the University of Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS)\, the LSE Grantham Research Institute (GRI)\, the University of Oslo PluriCourts\, the Climate Policy Journal\, the Carbon and Climate Law Review\, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)\, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)\, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat\, the Commonwealth Secretariat\, UN-Habitat and MayerBrown\, among many others who will be featured anon\, are engaged this year in making the Day a success!   \nThe event also features the Climate Law and Governance Global Leadership Awards 2021 and International Climate Law and Governance Student Essay Contest 2021 Prizes on 05 November 2021\, recognizing negotiators\, general counsel\, and distinguished practitioners\, academics and civil society leaders\, also outstanding students\, for their contributions to the global legal response to climate change. \n\nPhotos from Climate Law & Governance Day 2021 \n \nCLGD Outcomes and Conclusions Plenary in the Kelvin Gallery. \n \n \n\n\n\nExperts from the Environment Law Institute and partners lead the engaging Roundtable XV on Ensuring Compliance with Climate Regimes.\nAmb Odo Tevi of the Government of Vanuatu delivers opening remarks during Experts at Panel XII on  Advancing Climate Justice through the World’s Highest Court. \n\n\n\n \nIs the International Court of Justice ready for an Advisory Opinion on the nexus between climate change & human rights? Experts at Panel XII on  Advancing Climate Justice through the World’s Highest Court weigh in. \n \n \n\n\n\nExperts Panel X on  Decarbonizing International Trade elucidates the economic and international legal principles behind carbon responsibility & carbon pricing \n\n\n\n“Negative emissions policies are now more constrained by political dynamics than legal dynamics\,” says Dr Jesse Reynolds in Panel Discussion XI on Law & Policy Dimensions of Climate Repair \n \n \nCLGD 2021 is proud to feature leading women jurists and scholars as chairs\, co-hosts and discussants across our 16 parallel panels \n \nCLGD co-hosts\, Prof Markus Gehring (Cambridge) with Prof Christian Tams (Glasgow) \nPreparing for the University of Strathclyde-led Experts Panel VII on Exploring Law & Policy Strategies & Frameworks to Address Climate Related Ocean Change\n\nAdv Wendy Miles\, QC and Adv Michael Strauss co-chair  Experts Panel V on Reallocating International Capital and the Role of Law \n \nCOP24 President Dr Michał Kurtyka explains that the legacy of Katowice Rulebook and Declaration on just transition are alive and well during Experts Panel VI on Advancing the Just Transition through Law & Science Three Years from COP24 \n \nDr. Alexandra Harrington chairs a hybrid roundtable on Climate Migration Challenges for Governance \n \n \nU-Cambridge VC Stephen Toope emphasizes “universities must embrace our decisive role in accelerating the development of law and policy innovations.” \n \n \nPanel Discussion IV on Employing Artificial Intelligence to Analyse Climate Laws & the Future of Evidence-Based Policy & Investment \n \n \nExperts Panel I on Rising Temperatures\, Expanding Human Rights and the Obligations of States and Private Actors for Global Climate Justice \n \nExperts Panel II on Scaling-up Paris Agreement Implementation through Climate Legislation \n \n \nLaw and legal frameworks translate climate goals into action\, says Professor Christina Voigt \n \n \nWelcoming remarks\, Adv Douglas Leys QC\,  Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger\, Hon Justice Antonio Benjamin & Rt Hon Lord Robert Carnwath \n \n \nGrand Opening of CLGD 2021 \n \n \nStanding room only at the Kelvin Gallery\, University of Glasgow \n \nClimate Law & Governance Day 2021 Themes\n \nFour key themes have been identified in consultation with the CLGD Programme Committee from the vision set by the United Kingdom as UNFCCC COP26 President\, as informed by the UNFCCC Climate Dialogues – Climate Law and Governance Roundtable on 04 December 2020. Each theme is led by a CLGI Chair: \n\nOperationalising the Paris Agreement: Exploring the challenges and opportunities of market and non-market mechanisms\, transparency frameworks\, compliance mechanisms\, loss and damage\, the Global Stocktake and other elements of operationalizing the Paris Agreement and other relevant international legal instruments.\nTesting Legal and Governance Tools for High Ambition Implementation: Innovating legal and governance instruments for climate mitigation\, adaptation and finance\, creating synergies within and across sectors\, and strengthening capacity amongst legislators\, policymakers and institutions\, in the context of pandemic recovery measures to help or hinder high ambition implementation of NDCs and LTSs under the Paris Agreement.\nAdvancing Climate Resilience and Climate Justice: Engaging civil society and the legal community\, including courts and professionals\, in accelerating climate action\, enhancing transparency and ensuring accountability\, integrating rights based approaches into climate actions\, advancing the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for loss and damage with effective structures including for financing actions to address loss and damage\, and climate migration.\nNet Zero Legal Frameworks to Enable Climate Neutral Investment and Finance: Exploring the legal tools and obstacles in promoting sustainable climate finance\, investment flows and global supply chains to implement the Paris Agreement\, including reductions in fossil fuel subsidies\, considering contributions of private international law\, international trade and investment law. \n\n\nClimate Law & Governance Day Objectives \n \n\nTo inspire and optimize legal and institutional reform for achieving current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement\, supporting the 2023 Global Stocktake efforts and increasing the ambition of the next round of NDCs.\nTo profile and share innovative international\, national\, and local law and governance challenges\, mechanisms and good practices relating to global efforts to address climate change.\nTo catalyse knowledge exchange and co-generate new climate law and governance scholarship\, insights and approaches\, facilitating new dialogue and partnerships.\nTo strengthen capacity\, collaboration among the climate law and governance community of practice to implement the Doha Amendment\, Paris Agreement and COP outcomes\, supporting achievement of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\n\n\nVenues\n \nClimate Law and Governance Day 2021 takes place in the grand Kelvin Gallery of the University of Glasgow on 05 November 2021 and the Climate Law and Governance Specialization Course 2021 on 07 November 2021 in the beautifully modern learning centre of Strathclyde University\, online and in person if COVID-19 restrictions allow. Preparatory and ex-post events at the University of Cambridge include an international academic conference ‘Climate Change\, the SDGs and the Law’ on law and policy innovation related to climate change on 29-30 October 2021\, and the global online Leverhulme Lecture and Distinguished Experts Dialogue on 01 December 2021. \nOther CLGI Activities During COP26\n \nCLGI supports an international programme of special side events and other sessions hosted by collaborating partners\, co-hosts and session hosts\, including the Research and Independent NGOs (RINGOs) constituency and others at the COP. These events often take place in official UNFCCC Blue or Green side event zones of the COP26 Climate Change Conference\, as well further associated venues\, in collaboration with leading climate law and governance organisations.  A CLGI Booth at COP also often offers a meeting point and dedicated space to share knowledge and materials\, including about climate law and governance issues and activities\, opening opportunities for exchanges among delegates and observers. CLGI will publish blog contributions during COP26\, as well as legal working papers and books with world-leading presses based on COP26 collaborations. \n \nKey Elements of Climate Law & Governance Initiative 2021\n \n\nPreparatory events\, an international academic conference on advancing climate law and policy innovation at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law on 29-30 October 2021\, with plenary sessions scoping the future legal and governance research agenda and identifying needs for new scholarship needs\, capacity building\, technical cooperation and future educational offerings.\nClimate Law and Governance Day 2021 during UNFCCC CoP26 on 05 November online and in person co-hosted by the University of Glasgow with the University of Cambridge and the University of Strathclyde\, featuring sessions on trends and progress in climate law and governance worldwide\, regionally and locally\, sharing dialogue\, practices and tools to support implementation of the Paris Agreement NDCs and Long-term Strategies (LTS)\, the Doha Amendment\, and the SDGs\, with roundtables featuring climate law and governance topics and instruments\, advancing international law\, and building synergies for future collaboration.\nClimate Law and Governance Global Leadership Awards 2021 and International Climate Law and Governance Student Essay Contest 2021 Prizes on 05 November 2021\, recognizing negotiators\, general counsel\, and distinguished practitioners\, academics and civil society leaders\, also outstanding students.\nClimate Law and Governance Specialization Course 2021 on 07 November 2021\, to strengthen legal and institutional knowledge and capacity of UNFCCC delegates\, observers\, scholars and others for implementation and compliance with the Paris Agreement. In this one-day course\, a certification is granted.\nA programme of climate law and governance sessions and side-events at the UNFCCC COP26 from 01 – 12 November\, featuring insights\, instruments and practices gained through CLGI partnerships and projects\, and to analyse outcomes\, a public online Leverhulme Lecture on ‘Accelerating Climate Law and Governance Courage\, Contributions and Compliance for Sustainability’ on 01 December hosted by the University of Cambridge and partners.\n\n \nProposed List of Sessions at Climate Law and Governance Day 2021\n \n1.Experts Panel: Rising Temperatures\, Expanding Human Rights and the Obligations of States and Private Actors for Global Climate Justice Hosted by Univ of Glasgow Centre for International Law & Security & Univ of Stirling \n2.Experts Panel: Scaling-up Paris Agreement Implementation through Climate Legislation Hosted by LSE Grantham Research Institute GRI\, Climate Policy Journal & Climate Change Leadership\, Uppsala Univ \n3. Roundtable: Inspiring a Collaborative Regulatory Philosophy through the Glasgow Forum on Rule of Law & Climate Finance Hosted by Glasgow Univ School of Law; Kansas Univ School of Law; Copenhagen Univ Faculty of Law; Oslo Univ Faculty of Law; Hong Kong Univ Faculty of Law; Nankai Univ School of Finance; Univ of Intl Business & Economics School of Law; Adekunle Ajasin Univ School of Law \n4. Roundtable: Sustainable Urban Planning through Regulatory Frameworks for & Investment in Rapid Decarbonisation of Cities Hosted by Institute for Climate Protection\, Energy & Mobility (IKEM)\, Germany \n5. Experts Panel: Following the Deal for International Financial Institutions Leadership through Net Zero Contracts Hosted by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)\, Net Zero Lawyers Alliance (NZLA) and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) \n6. Experts Panel: Advancing the Just Transition through Law & Science Three Years from COP24 Hosted by the Silesia Univ Faculty of Law and Administration \n7. Experts Panel: Exploring Law & Policy Strategies & Frameworks to Address Climate Related Ocean Change Hosted by One Ocean Hub\, The Ocean Foundation & the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification \n8. Experts & Practitioners Roundtable: Climate Migration Challenges for Governance Hosted by Albany Law School Center for Global Governance & Emerging Law CGGEL\, International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies\, Yale MacMillan Center & Yale Center for Ecosystems \n9. Experts Panel: Providing the Law & Climate Change Toolkit towards High Ambition Implementation of the Paris Agreement Hosted by the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)\, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)\, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat\, Commonwealth Secretariat\, UN-Habitat & MayerBrown \n10. Experts Panel: Trade & Investment Rules & Standards for Decarbonization of the Global Economy Hosted by Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Cambridge Univ Bennett Institute for Public Policy & Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS); European Climate Foundation ECF; Sidley Austin LLP \n11. Panel Discussion: Law & Policy Dimensions of Climate Repair Hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair (CCRC) \n12. Panel Discussion: Mapping Climate Laws & Policies Using Machine Learning Hosted by Climate Policy Radar \n13. Experts Panel: Mitigating Climate Change through Low Carbon & Energy Efficient Procurement with the 2021 Sustainable Public Procurement Global Review & UNEP’s Field Projects Hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) \n14. Experts Panel: Courage\, Contributions & Compliance by Advancing Paris Agreement Implementation & Climate Justice Hosted by CISDL\, Waterloo Univ School of Environment\, Enterprise & Development SEED\, Oslo Univ\, ILA Colombia\, ILA Canada\, ILA Hellenic branch\, ILA Poland\, ILA Switzerland &  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid \n15. Roundtable Workshop: Ensuring Compliance with Climate Regimes Hosted by Environment Law Institute (ELI) \n16. Roundtable Workshop: Climate Adaptation from the Youth Movement Hosted by Univ Student Chamber International UNISC\, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change\, the World’s Youth for Climate Justice & Worldwide Sustainability Warriors of Barbados WSWB \n \nWarmest thanks are due to the past and present partners and co-hosts of Climate Law and Governance Day\, and all collaborators and advisors of the global Climate Law and Governance Initiative\, from the CLGI Executive Secretary\, Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge\, CISDL Senior Director and Full Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo) and Chairs\, Prof Christina Voigt (Professor of International Law at the University of Oslo and Co-Chair\, Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee)\, Adv Wendy Miles QC (Barrister\, Twenty Essex Street and founder\, Net Zero Lawyers Alliance)\, Adv Ayman Cherkaoui (CISDL Lead Counsel for Climate Change and CoP22 Presidency Senior Advisor) and Adv Hafij Khan (Executive Director of the Climate Justice Centre Bangladesh and Co-Chair of the Paris Agreement Least Developed Countries Group).
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SUMMARY:Climate Change\, the SDGs and the Law Conference
DESCRIPTION:Click here for the Full Online Conference Agenda\nClick here to register now\n \nCOP26 in November 2021 in Glasgow\, UK\, will present a crucial opportunity for remaining issues of Paris Agreement implementation to be discussed & finalized. Exploring interlinkages between the climate regime & other international legal frameworks & engaging the broadest possible array of partners from across different sectors will be vital if the objectives of the Paris Agreement are to be achieved. The Climate Change\, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Law in the Context of Pandemic Recovery Conference\, which will take place in Cambridge in the lead-up to COP26\, will feature two half-days of expert panel presentations by leading practitioners\, researchers & academics in the areas of law\, climate change\, politics & land economy & beyond. \n \nClick here to download the Full Online Conference Programme\n \n \n \n Online Video Presentations\n \n\n\n\n\nMainstreaming Climate Change in Kenya’s Devolved Governance (Salome Karimi\, Kenya)\n\nhttps://www.climatelawgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Salome-Karimi-Video.mp4\n  \n\nClimate Governance & Urban Water Management in the Middle East and North Africa (Nesma Hassan\, University of Waterloo)\n\nhttps://www.climatelawgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Nesma-Hassan-Video-Climate-Governance-in-Relation-to-Urban-Water-Management-in-the-Middle-East-and-North-Africa.mp4\n  \n\nExploring the Opportunities & Challenges of Right-Based Climate Litigation in Indonesia (Marsya Mutmainah\, Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law)\n\nhttps://www.climatelawgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Untitled.mp4\n  \n\nClimate Litigation & Paris Agreement Enforcement (Daniele Galvão de Sousa Santos\, University of Coimbra)\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.climatelawgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Climate-Litigation-and-the-Paris-Agreement-Enforcement_Daniele-Galvão.mp4\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nClimate Change & the Equitable & Reasonable Utilization of Water in International Law (Fabiana Piccoli Araujo Santos\, University of Cambridge)https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Untitled-1.mp4\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLimitations of the Human Rights Approach to Climate Loss & Damage (Kumie Hattori\, Kyoto University)\n\n\nJudicial remedies can enhance climate governance: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific (Briony Eales\, Asian Development Bank) — Coming Soon. \n\n\n\n\n  \n \nLinks to Posters \n \n\nClimate Governance & Urban Water Management in the Middle East and North Africa (Nesma Hassan\, University of Waterloo)\nEU Contributions under the Paris Agreement through the 2030 Climate & Energy Targets (Eva Balounová\, Institute of State and Law\, Czech Academy of Sciences) \n\n  \n \n \nCall for Papers: Now CLOSED \n \n29-30 October 2021 | University of Cambridge\, UK \nThe Paris Agreement charts a new course in the global effort to address climate change. For progressively more ambitious nationally determined contributions to the global response to climate change\, countries need specific domestic measures to reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change on all levels\, and to change the direction of financial flows. Non-Party stakeholders are also invited to scale up their efforts. Since COP22\, the Marrakesh Partnership has focused these efforts through the UNFCCC Race to Zero campaign. In the lead-up to COP26 in November 2021 in Glasgow\, UK\, the UNFCCC High Level Climate Champions have focused on scaling up of efforts by financial institutions and the corporates they invest in\, among many other actors across society. \nThe international conference on Climate Change\, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & the Law in the Context of Pandemic Recovery\, taking place at the University of Cambridge and online in the week preceding COP26\, will feature keynotes and experts plenary with leading practitioners\, researchers & academics in the areas of law\, climate change\, politics & land economy & beyond\, also special climate law careers sessions for emerging scholars\, junior law and governance practitioners and students. \nThe conference will focus on the following five themes\, linked to the COP26 debates: \n1.  Advancing Paris Agreement Innovations – Progress & opportunities in transparency\, markets & non- market instruments\, finance\, loss & damage\, compliance & implementation mechanisms. \n2.  Scaling-up Climate Legal Frameworks for Action – Effective climate governance\, public and private sector industry-wide\, cross-sectoral and entire value and supply-chain GHG mitigation standards\, rights-based approaches\, loss and damage\, human mobility & climate justice litigation. \n3.  Designing International Interlinkages & Engagement – Climate change in regimes on maritime governance\, biodiversity\, ozone\, civil aviation\, trade\, investment\, human rights\, peace & security. \n4.  Scaling up Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigation & Resilience – Legal & governance frameworks for adaptation & resilience and addressing loss and damage\, conservation & sustainable use of terrestrial & marine & ocean ecosystems\, promotion of sustainable development. \n5.  Incentivizing Climate-Positive Measures to Foster Ambition Towards Carbon Neutrality & Carbon Negativity – State and regional policies & legislation for rapid decarbonisation\, as well as broader public and private international law and policy measures to promote clean energies and incentivize carbon-negative technologies at all levels. \nInvitation to Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-change-the-sdgs-and-the-law-in-the-context-of-pandemic-recovery-tickets-168600712269 \nThis Conference is a hybrid event. In person participation at University of Cambridge venues will be subject to capacity limits in accordance with University and UK Covid-19 protocols at the time of the Conference. \nDownload the Program:  Poster Programme
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/climate-change-the-sdgs-and-the-law-conference/
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SUMMARY:Register Now: Leverhulme Lecture on Accelerating Paris Agreement Compliance for Sustainable Development
DESCRIPTION:Register Now: Accelerating Paris Agreement Compliance for Sustainable Development\n \nLeverhulme Lecture & Distinguished Experts Dialogue  \nWednesday 01 December 2021 \n18:00 Geneva| 17:00 Cambridge | 12:00 Montreal / New York \nCo-hosted by the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford \nPlease register early\, while places are available. \nYou are invited to register now for a Leverhulme Lecture and Distinguished Experts Dialogue on Wednesday 01 December 2021 among leading international jurists\, senior leaders and academics\, and renowned trade and investment experts\, to share insights and identify new directions for accelerating Paris Agreement compliance and enabling achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals as a component of pandemic recovery and the global\, guided by international law and policy. \nThe event will feature a Distinguished Experts Dialogue between respected international judges and arbitrators\, expert professors of international trade and investment law\, and senior leaders of international organisations and educational institutions in the field of international trade and investment law\, public policy and sustainable development. The dialogue will be 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 International Law\, School of Environment\, Entrepreneurship & Development\, University of Waterloo and author of Athena’s Treaties: Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development (Oxford University Press\, June 2021). \nThis series of open public Leverhulme Lectures raises complex\, inter-linked ‘wicked problems’ and innovative solutions to global economic concerns\, health pandemics\, climate change\, natural resources and biodiversity degradation\, poverty and injustice. It considers how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a common global public policy agenda\, supported by binding international legal principles and rules derived from treaty regimes\, interpreted by courts and tribunals\, for pandemic response and recovery. In the present lecture\, experts consider how international trade and investment law\, including dispute settlement\, can foster a more sustainable recovery of the world economy\, advancing new directions for research\, education and practice in this field. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/accelerating-paris-agreement-compliance-for-sustainable-development-tickets-168590770533?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/register-now-leverhulme-lecture-on-accelerating-paris-agreement-compliance-for-sustainable-development/
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SUMMARY:Human Rights\, the Sustainable Development Goals & the Law International Legal Symposium & Hon Justice CD Gonthier Memorial Lectures 2020
DESCRIPTION:Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals present a short and long-term vision for current and future generations worldwide\, and human rights law and practice is at the heart of this vision. Indeed\, as the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has noted\, “the SDGs are a truly universal framework and will be applicable to all countries.” \nThis bi-annual celebration of the legacy of the Honorable Justice Charles D. Gonthier\, distinguished Canadian jurist\, mentor and friend\, will focus on the legal insights and innovations which contribute to implementing the SDGs in a manner that integrates and respects human rights and justice. Experts\, law-makers\, judges\, scholars and practitioners will consider novel and contextual solutions to a wide variety of legal problems\, gaining inspiration from values that are essential to our society. Justice Gonthier developed these values in several legal domains\, across common law\, Quebec civil law\, and internationally. This special event considers\, critiques and celebrates the developments in Quebec\, Canadian and international law and governance which prioritize the needs and rights of current and future generations\, and seek to deliver the SDGs locally\, nationally and globally. \nThis 2020 International Symposium on Human Rights\, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Law will feature 2 days of academic panel presentations by those working on cutting edge research\, culminating in a special event in the Canadian legal calendar\, the Hon CD Gonthier Memorial Lectures. \nKey themes for the Symposium focus on three pillars identified by the UN OHCHR: \n\nThe transformative shift in legal and development practice embodied in the vision of the SDGs as “an agenda for people\, planet\, prosperity\, peace and partnership.”\nThe comprehensive nature and treatment of human rights in the SDGs\, “including economic\, civil\, cultural\, political\, social rights and the right to development.”\nThe inclusivity of the SDGs in relation to the human rights guaranteed to all citizens and in all aspects of society.
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/human-rights-the-sustainable-development-goals-the-law-international-legal-symposium-hon-justice-cd-gonthier-memorial-lectures-2020/
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Climate Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:All are warmly invited to attend the Cambridge Climate Lecture Series\, beginning on 13 February with a lecture by Mike Berners-Lee\, author of ‘There is no Planet B’. On 20 February 2020\, the second lecture for the series will feature University of Cambridge Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor & Climate Law & Governance Initiative Executive Secretary Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger\, on COP26\, Climate Justice & the Law. This lecture will probe critical challenges to be addressed in Glasgow & suggest pathways toward strengthening legal interlinkages & magnifying stakeholder participation to procure just outcomes. Click here to learn more about the Cambridge Climate Lecture Series programme\, & register for each lecture. \n 
URL:https://www.climatelawgovernance.org/event/cambridge-climate-lecture-series/
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SUMMARY:First Ever Global Leadership Award Winners Announced at CLGD 2019
DESCRIPTION:The first-ever Climate Law and Governance Global Leadership Awards were announced in a special awards ceremony at Climate Law and Governance Day 2019\, held at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Faculty of Law.\n \nThe top honours were received by Ms. Marie-Anne Birken\, General Counsel at EBRD for her leadership as a general counsel\, Dr. Ilona Millar\, Senior Partner at Baker McKenzie and Dr. Wendy Miles\, QC\, Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration for their leadership as professionals; and HE Tosi Mpanu Mpanu\, Chair of the Coalition of Rainforest Nations & Representative\, Democratic Republic of Congo\, for his leadership as\na climate negotiator over the years. Adv. Magdalena Stryja of the University of Silesia in Katowice\, Head of Science and Development Committee of the Katowice Bar Association and Legal Fellow at CISDL\, and Prof. Tomasz Pietrzykowski\, Professor and Vice-Rector for Domestic & International Cooperation at the University of Silesia won the prize for the top law faculty and university. \nAward Winner – General Counsel: Ms. Marie-Anne Birken\, General Counsel at EBRD \nMarie-Anne Birken was appointed General Counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in June 2014.  Ms Birken is a member of the Executive Committee and various other committees of the Bank. Ms Birken joined the EBRD from the Asian Development Bank where she was The Secretary and previously served as Deputy General Counsel and as Assistant General Counsel responsible for private sector operations. Ms Birken has extensive emerging markets experience and lived and worked in Asia from 1995 until 2014. She was previously a partner in two international law firms and held the position of regional general counsel at Barclays Bank where she supported corporate banking activities in Asia\, the Middle East and Africa. \n \nAward Winner – Professional Leadership: Dr. Ilona Millar\, Senior Partner at Baker McKenzie \nIlona is the head of Baker McKenzie’s Global Climate Change practice. She has worked for the last 20 years on climate law and finance\, including the development of law and policy and its implementation by both governments and the private sector. This experience extends to complex multi-jurisdictional transactions as well as the development of innovative responses to climate change and sustainability problems. Ilona has worked extensively on the development of carbon contracts\, carbon funds and carbon transactions in both the compliance and voluntary markets. She also has a deep expertise in advising on natural sinks and forest based carbon transactions as well as on geological sequestration and the legal frameworks for carbon capture and storage. More recently she has been leading work exploring the role of hydrogen in transitioning to a low carbon economy. Ilona’s experience also extends to all aspects of environmental law and policy and she has a strong background in all aspects of management\, planning and projects. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie\, Ilona worked at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) in London. She is also a former Principal Solicitor of the Environmental Defender’s Office Ltd (NSW). Ilona currently serves as a board member of the Natural Resources Access Regulator\, an independent body which oversees natural resources compliance in NSW. She is also a member of the NSW Independent Planning Commission which reviews and determines state significant development proposals. She is a visiting fellow at the ANU College of Law where she has taught international climate change law at ANU since 2009.  Ilona has been ranked in Best Lawyers Australia since 2014 and was awarded Best Lawyer Climate Change in 2017 and 2019. \n \nAward Winner – Professional Leadership: Dr. Wendy Miles\, QC\, Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration \nWendy J. Miles\, QC is a partner in the firm’s London office and a member of the International Dispute Resolution Group. Her practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law. Ms. Miles is recognised as one of the market’s foremost lawyers in the fields of arbitration and public international law. With over twenty years of experience\, Ms. Miles has conducted arbitrations under all the major institutions\, as well as ad hoc\, and undertaken significant public international law cases. She has advised a wide range of multinationals\, sovereign states and state entities. Ms. Miles is a Vice President of the ICC Court of Arbitration and member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She co-chaired the Task Force on Costs Allocation in Arbitration from 2016 to 2017\, and the ICC Task Force on Climate Change Related Disputes\, which published its report in December 2019. She also remains active on various other professional bodies including the International Bar Association\, Stockholm Arbitration Association and the Foundation for International Advocacy in Arbitration\, which she will chair from 2020 to 2022. She is immediate past Co-Chair of the gender diversity initiative Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge. Ms. Miles regularly teaches on arbitration\, advocacy\, climate change law and public and private international law. \n \nAward winner – climate negotiator: HE Tosi Mpanu Mpanu\, Chair of the Coalition of Rainforest Nations & Representative\, Democratic Republic of Congo \nAn economist by training\, Ambassador Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu holds an MBA in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University\, as well as a Master’s degree in European Studies and International Relations from Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. He has twenty years of experience in the areas of finance\, climate change\, economic development\, carbon markets\, renewable energy\, environment and diplomacy. He sits on the Governing Board of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Agency\, a specialized agency of the African Union. As a delegate of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the negotiation process under the UN Climate Convention\, he has participated to most UN climate conferences since 2007. Elected President of the Group of African Negotiators at the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009\, he held this position until the Durban Conference in December 2011. Following his chairmanship of the Least Developed Countries Group (LDCs) in the climate negotiations process from January to December 2016\, he served as Chair of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN)\, from 2017 to 2019. From 2014 to 2015\, Amb. Mpanu Mpanu served as a member of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)\, which supervises the operation and evaluation of market-based mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism. In December 2019\, Amb. Mpanu Mpanu was elected Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). \n \nAward winner – Top University and Law Faculty: Adv. Magdalena Stryja of the University of Silesia in Katowice\, Head of Science and Development Committee of the Katowice Bar Association and Legal Fellow at CISDL \nAdv. Magdalena Stryja performs the function of the Head for Organisation at the Faculty of Law and Administration\, University of Silesia in Katowice. She also performs the function of the Chair of the Science and Development Committee with the District Bar Association in Katowice. She is a member of the interdisciplinary Polish Research Team Just Transition\, which aims at developing and implementing the concept of fair transformation in view of the necessity of transforming economy\, lifestyle\, culture and social values in the region in the face of climate change. She is a member of the University of Silesia-based bioethics research team dealing with legal and bioethical aspects of medicine and animal protection as well as environmental and climate protection. She acts as the Spokesperson for the Faculty of Law and Administration University of Silesia in Katowice and is a member of a research team within the project financed by the European Commission entitled “Train Your Language.” Adv. Stryja delivers lectures on labour law and social policy\, teaches copyright law with a focus on employee-generated content and works\, and also deals with legal aspects of climate change\, including the social aspects of retraining employees. \n \nAward winner – Top University and Law Faculty: Prof. Tomasz Pietrzykowski\, Professor and Vice-Rector for Domestic & International Cooperation at the University of Silesia \nTomasz Pietrzykowski is professor of legal theory and philosophy of law at the University of Silesia in Katowice and the Head of the Research Center for Public Policy and Regulatory Governance. He is the author of numerous books and articles on philosophical\, scientific and legal aspects of personhood\, animal rights\, bioethics\, legal methodology and problems of interpretation and application of the law. He is also practicing lawyer and former head of governmental administration in the Polish region of Silesia. Currently\, he is the chairman of the advisory council of the Silesian Metropolitan Area composed of 41 municipalities around the city of Katowice\, as well as the chairman of the Polish National Committee on Ethics in Animal Experimentation. Since 2015 he is vice-rector of the University of Silesia in Katowice\, Poland. In late 2019 he established the interdisciplinary ‘Just Transition Research Group’ that is to pursue systematic research on socially just and viable policies of effective energy\, economy and lifestyle transformation of regions still deeply involved in carbon intensive industries\, such as Upper Silesia.  \n \n  \nCongratulations again to all award winners. Learn more about Climate Law & Governance Day 2019 here\, or email us at climatelawgovernance@cisdl.org.
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SUMMARY:CLGI at COP24
DESCRIPTION:Legal tools and governance frameworks on the national and international level provide both obstacles and opportunities in responding to climate challenges. Unlocking the knowledge of the legal community is crucial to rise to these challenges\, empower actors from different sectors and levels of government to understand\, change and use the role of law in taking climate action. To raise this awareness and facilitate this empowerment\, CLGI hosts events each year during and in the run up to the UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties (CoP). With the climate community come together alongside the UNFCCC processes\, the CoPs present a great opportunity to build on the growing climate law community of practice dedicated to contributing innovative legal solutions to the collective climate action effort.\nIn 2018\, our diverse programme was back in Katowice\, Poland for CoP24. \n \nCLGI Exhibit Booth | Dialogue\, Research & Capacity Building Exhibit \nThe CLGI Secretariat in partnership with the Green Economics Institute  held presentations and dialogue for Katowice Zone participants on climate law and governance reform challenges\, materials profiling research into innovative solutions\, and opportunities to network and build synergies for capacity development. Some of the recent work profiled can also be found in our knowledge centre and on the websites of our partner organisations. \nClimate Law and Governance Day | Contributions to Climate Action under the Paris Agreement \nOur annual one-day knowledge sharing event alongside the COP again convened a diverse gathering of over 250 international experts\, scholars\, legal practitioners\, judges\, government delegates\, and climate leaders from civil society and the private sector. For a more detailed description of the day click here. \n  \n \nClimate Law and Governance Specialization Course 2018: Building Capacity for Climate Law & Governance  \nLaws and institutions can help or hinder climate action. They are crucial instruments for promoting sustainable development\, and making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low-GHG and climate-resilient alternatives\, as sought by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This interactive capacity-building course introduced participants to timely issues concerning legal and governance challenges and opportunities for the implementation of the NDCs and the Paris Agreement. Participants will be briefed on polices and laws to strengthen adaptation and resilience\, to promote renewable energies and climate finance\, to deliver Paris Agreement transparency and compliance\, to link human rights law\, loss and damages and climate displacement. Participants will earn an official certification for a Climate Law & Governance specialisation\, presented on the day\, and registration is free for low-income country delegations\, organisations and students. \n  \n \nSide Event at COP24:  Advances in Climate Law and Governance – Implementing the Paris Agreement Worldwide \nAmbition in Paris Agreement implementation – and beyond – requires innovative legal and governance solutions\, and green economic tools. International instruments\, regulatory and economic innovations\, compliance and capacity will be key. These interactive expert roundtables shared insights on challenges\, trends and collective actions in legal\, institutional and economic reform\, building capacity for climate action\, managing carbon budgets and halving emissions to 2 tonnes globally. Experts highlighted innovations to implement Nationally Determined Contributions and foster a greener global economy. Findings of Climate Law & Governance Day 2018 were shared\, and global Climate Law Essay Awards were presented to the world’s next generation of climate leaders. \nHosts: CISDL McGill University; CEENRG University of Cambridge & Green Economics Institute \n \n***
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