LAUREATES OF THE 2022 CLIMATE LAW & GOVERNANCE AWARDS

Each COP, Judges from the CLGI Programme Committee recognize the leading efforts of climate law and governance practitioners and scholars, and this year’s 2022 Climate Law & Governance Global Leadership Awards celebrated the outstanding contributions of:

• Climate General Counsel: Dr Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Legal Director, UNEP for leading UNEP’s environmental law division in the global response to climate change.

• Climate Negotiators: Ms Mariane Karlsen, Senior Negotiator, Norway / Chair, UNFCCC SBI and Ms Janine Felson, Senior Negotiator, AOSIS for advancing understanding and implementation of the Paris Agreement internationally.

• Climate Law Practitioners: Adv Estelle Dehon KC, Co-Chair, Climate Crisis Working Group UK Bar Council and Adv Nina Pindham, Vice-Chair, UK Environmental Law Association / IBA Climate Law Coalition for engaging bar associations in climate law solutions and practice in the UK, Canada and globally; Adv Lungisani Zulu, Chair, Law Association of Zambia for advancing climate law and governance in Zambia and globally.

• Climate Law Civil Society and Community Leaders: Dr Caio Borges, Institute for Climate and Society (Brasilian) for supporting climate justice litigation in Brasil and worldwide and Adv Lucie Greyl, General Coordinator and Climate Litigation Lead, A Sud – Ecologia e Cooperazione Onlus for advancing climate justice and community leadership in Italy and worldwide.

• Climate University Leaders: Prof Giedre Jokubauskaite / Prof Henry Lovat / Prof Sarah Carter on behalf of the University of Glasgow; Prof Francesco Sindico / Dean Prof Claire McDiarmid on behalf of Strathclyde University; and Dr Markus Gehring / Prof Diane Coyle / Faculty Chair Prof David Howarth on behalf of the University of Cambridge for world-class education, research and impact in climate law and governance, with thanks for their hospitality and engagement in co-hosting the CLG academic pre-conference, the CLG Day 2021 and the CLG Specialisation Course during CoP26 in the UK.

The 2022 Climate Law & Governance Student Essay Competition featured submissions from students across the world, with warmest of congratulations to the laureates:

• Platinum Awards: Christian Gutzwillier (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Mikaella
  Bodeux (Utrecht University, Netherlands); Mayssa Mansour (Lebanese University, Lebanon);
  and Abdel Hamid Shehata Abdelrazek (South Valley University, Egypt) won Platinum for
  outstanding essays on Net Zero: A vague Concept on the Lookout for Guidance Policies, Regulatory
  Measures and Structuring Elements for Effective Decarbonization”; Copping Out? A Closer Look at the Phasedown of Unabated Coal Power Under the Glasgow Climate Pact; التغير أزمة لمواجهة القانونية السبل البي التشريعات تطور ظل في المناخي / Legal responses to the climate change crisis, in light of environmental neutrality carbon of goal The / هدف حياد الكربون كالتزام دستوري علي الدولة و الشركات ;development legislative as a constitutional obligation on the State and corporations.

• Gold Awards: Rachel Wam (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Jorge Alejandro Carrillo
  Banuelos (Harvard Law School, USA); Motasem Jendaya (University Tunis El Manar, Tunisia);
  and Pakinam Alsonbaty & Mahtab Ali Elshenawy (Ain Shams University, Egypt) won Gold for
  excellent essays on “Crimes Against Nature are Crimes Against Humanity”: The Planet v Bolsonaro in
  Reframing Climate Change through Litigation; Emergencia climática y derechos humanos: definiendo el alcance de las obligaciones estatales desde la Comisión Interamericana; وفق المناخية والعدالة اإلنسان حقوق الدولية االتفاقيات / “Human rights and climate justice in light of international conventions; والحماية المنازعات” judicial environmental and Disputes / واإلطارات القانونية المقترحة لمواجه ة مشكله تغير المناخ ;القضائية البيئية في مصر protection in Egypt: Proposed legal frameworks to address climate change.

• Silver Awards: Kelly Gorman (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) and Kirsten Barratt, Megan
  Mannion & Koaile Monaheng (University of Cape Town and Rhodes University, South Africa); Che Yeon Kim, Zion Lee, and Ji Sung Park (Sciences Po Paris); Joman Rabah Al-Khateeb (University of private Applied sciences, Amman, Jordan) and Areej Olama (Hebron University, Palestine) won Silver for their inspiring essays on Transforming the World’s Food Systems: The Need for a Holistic Approach to Food Waste; Building Beyond Montreal and Basel: How a New “Plastics Treaty” Can Save Our Oceans ; Past/”التغيير المناخي في إطار القانون الدولي و القانون الدولي اإلنساني; Policies Energy Nuclears’ Korea South of Future and Climate change within the framework of international law and international humanitarian law; حقوق” المناخية العدالة و االنسان / Human rights and climate justice.

Bronze Judges Commendations were also awarded to:

• Alaa Grada (The Islamic University, Palestine)
• Shaun Chua (National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Singapore)
• Abde Abde (Hebron University, Palestine)
• Rebecca Brimble (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Salah Jubair Saddam/Bador Salem (Karbala University, Iraq)
• Putu B. Nugraha (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia)
• Yara Thaer Al Abbadi (Applied Sciences Private University, Jordan)
• Ifeanyi Nwokolo (University of Windsor, Canada)
• Nasser Thabet (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
• Mohab Elhakem (Hewlan University, Egypt)
• Intissar Badr (Lebanese University, Lebanon)
• Lara Shirley (University of Melbourne)