22.03.2021 - // online // Webinar

Climate Change and the Rule of Law – 4th Luther Dispute Resolution Lecture

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Date: Monday, March 22, 2021

Time: 6:30 pm 8:00 pm (CET)

Venue: Zoom

The law should be an essential part of the consideration of the international response to
climate change Addressing climate change under the Paris Agreement and whatever
commitments emerge from the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will require
effective laws, effective judicial oversight, and full engagement of lawyers at every level. The
COP26 summit in Glasgow provides an ideal opportunity for pooling of ideas and best
practices and for systematic discussion and analysis within the international legal community
In his lecture, Lord Robert Carnwath former Justice of the UK Supreme Court, will seek to draw some lessons from existing legal models, practices and case law, and point the way to
possible future developments.

Lord Carnwath is a former member of the UK Supreme Court and currently an Associate Member of Landmark Chambers, London. He is, inter alia a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (at the London School of Economics). Throughout his professional career Lord Carnwath has taken a special interest in environmental law and as a judge has given many leading judgments on environmental issues. He is, inter alia, Honorary President of the UK Environmental Law Association and since 2004 he has worked as an adviser to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on judicial training. He was a founder member of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE) and of the Global Judges’ Institute on the Environment (GJIE).

His lecture will be followed by commentaries by Prof. Dr Bernhard Wegener (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Dr Roda Verheyen (Rechtsanwälte Günther).

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Please register until March 18, 2021.