CONFERENCE INVITATION: Climate Rights As a New Way To Respond To the Climate Crisis

 The European Justice and Environment (J&E) network, in partnership with the BlueLink Foundation, invites you to an international conference on climate and human rights, the final part of the DACE project - Climate and Environment Discussions and Actions, with the support of EU.

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A conference will be held on 15.10.2024, Tuesday, from 10:30 to 13:30 Bulgarian time, at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels, as well as online. Participation is free, but pre-registration is required. The event will be held in English.

Date: 15 October 2024, 9:30-12:30
Venue: Committee of the Regions, Brussels, Bâtiment Jacques Delors
Rue Belliard 99-101, B - 1040 Brussels
AGENDA
9.30 – 9.35 Welcome, opening remarks (Csaba Kiss, coordinator, Justice & Environment)
9.35 – 9.45 From 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
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 The emerging role of citizens and the courts in defining “climate justice”
(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)
11.30 – 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, founding director, lawyer, IIDMA, adjunct professor of
international environmental law, IE University)
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

Събитието и настоящата публикация са част от инициатива „Дискусии и действия за климат и околна среда“ на европейската мрежа “Правосъдие и околна среда”, която се осъществява с подкрепата на Европейската изпълнителна агенция за образование и култура (EACEA) на ЕС. Всички изразени възгледи са само на авторите и не отразяват непременно тези на Европейския съюз (ЕС).