Regulation and institutional reform are increasingly being used around the world to enhance ambition, implement the Paris Agreement and NDC targets, and stimulate cooperation. The law can require climate mitigation, adaptation and finance outcomes, send signals to markets, and incentivise transition. This panel at the UK Pavilion at COP25 provided a briefing on recent climate […]
Legal & 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 a short briefing […]
Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Executive Secretary of the CLGI, has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Visiting Professorship award from Leverhulme Trust. Professor Cordonier Segger is a full professor of international law at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, who also serves as Executive Secretary of the United […]
Is implementation of the Paris Agreement on track? What are the Agreement’s prospects for success? Students, researchers and those interested in international climate law and governance are warmly invited to this talk with special guest speaker Prof. Daniel Bodansky, chaired by Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger. The conference will seek to review developments in the international […]
On Friday 6 December 2019, on Spain’s historic National Constitution Day (Día de la Constitución), over 300 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, marking the event the biggest since the […]
On Sunday 8 December 2019, over 170 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, […]
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 […]
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. The top honours were received by Ms. Marie-Anne Birken, General Counsel at EBRD for her leadership as a general counsel, Dr. Ilona Millar, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Register Now: Accelerating Paris Agreement Compliance for Sustainable Development Leverhulme Lecture & Distinguished Experts Dialogue Wednesday 01 December 2021 18:00 Geneva| 17:00 Cambridge | 12:00 Montreal / New York Co-hosted by the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford Please register early, while places are available. You are invited to register now for a Leverhulme […]
Click here for the Full Online Conference Agenda Click here to register now COP26 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 […]