Advancing Climate Justice through the World’s Highest Court

A Law and Governance Day Event

About this event

This side event on Law and governance day seeks to provide an understanding on the need to include a rights-based approach to addressing the climate crisis and the need to utilise international legal mechanisms to clarify and develop international law in this area.

It will bring together leading experts, government officials, and youth representatives to be a part of the diverse multi-stakeholder panel in discussing the ICJAO campaign and how it can serve as a strong legal mechanism to catalyse greater climate action and ambition. 

The aims of the event are:

  • To engage in a high-level conversation on the efficacy and utility of a legal mechanism such as the ICJAO in bolstering climate action globally

  • Raise the profile of the campaign by building on the momentum of the global youth campaign.

  • Engage with government officials and diplomats in presenting this campaign as a promising initiative that can have positive benefits and encourage discussions on the next steps that need to be taken in this campaign especially in the context of the recent announcement by the Vanuatu government.

  • Discuss the heart of the ICJAO campaign, the legal question, and what must it contain in order to secure a successful advisory opinion.

Mode: Hybrid Event (In Person and Online)

Registration: Compulsory

Program

Guiding Questions

  • What could be a possible framing of the legal question that would not undermine but rather complement the Paris Agreement?

  • Given the current development in international law, is the ICJ ready for an advisory opinion on the nexus between climate change and human rights?

  • How successful can an Advisory Opinion be in advancing intergenerational equity, and climate action broadly?

Meet the Speakers

  • Prof. Jorge Viñuales

    University of Cambridge

  • Amb. Odo Tevi

    Permanent Representative of Vanuatu to the United Nations

  • Prof. Lavanya Rajamani

    Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

  • Adv. Monica Feria Tinta

    Twenty Essex