Climate Rights as a New Way to Respond to the Climate Crisis
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CLIMATE RIGHTS AS A NEW WAY TO RESPOND TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Date: 15 October 2024, 9:30-12:30
Venue: Committee of the Regions, Brussels, Bâtiment Jacques Delors Rue Belliard 99-101, B - 1040 Brussels
9.30 – 9.35 Welcome, opening remarks (Csaba Kiss, coordinator, Justice & Environment)
9.35 – 9.45From Environmental Liability to Environmental Justice (Julian Popov, fellow of the European Climate Foundation, former Minister of Environment and Water of Bulgaria, Commissioner Nominee for Bulgaria)
First panel: Our conceptual approach to climate rights: the rights-based perspective to EU and national climate policies
9.45 – 10.00 The concept of climate rights (Plamen Peev, legal expert, BlueLink)
10.00 – 10.15 Climate rights, climate citizens with special regard to children (Kata Dozsa, associate professor, Brussels School of Governance – Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Keynote speeches
Keynote speeches
10.15 – 10.30 The amazing story of the KlimaSeniorinnen Switzerland (Elisabeth Stern, board member, KlimaSeniorinnen Switzerland)
10.30 – 10.45 Protecting a safe climate for future generations: lessons from international courts (Katalin Sulyok, climate law scholar, advisor to the Ombudsman for Future Generations, Hungary)
10:45 – 11:00 … (Jacob Werksman, principal advisor, lead negotiator, EC DG CLIMA)
11:00 – 11:15 Impacts of climate litigation on EU climate law and policy (Klara Talaber-Ritz, deputy director, European Commission Legal Service)
Second panel: National perspectives: examples from EU countries
11.15 – 11.30 Estonia - Climate litigation against oil shale (Triin Jaadmaa, lawyer, EELC)
1.30 – 11.45 Slovenia - Corporate Responsibility and Climate Change (Aljosa Petek, lawyer, PIC)
11.45 – 12.00 Spain - Multilevel governance in climate law enforcement (Ana Barreira, lawyer, IIDMA)
12.00 – 12.15 Communicating climate rights in mass media and online - an uphill struggle! (Pavel Antonov, BlueLink.net editor, board member of the Association for Progressive Communications)
Third panel: The way ahead for enhancing climate rights
12.15 – 12.30 Open discussion
12:30 – Lunch
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