Climate Change & International Law Post-Copenhagen 鈥� An expert panel discussion
A high level expert panel discussion on Climate Change & Environmental Law, Post-Copenhagen.
The Copenhagen conference on climate change (COP15), from December 7 to 18 2009, was marked as one of the defining moments of our times in concerted international legal efforts regarding climate change. This expert panel discussion will involve leading international legal experts in the field of climate change, all of whom attended the COP15 conference.
The focus of the discussion will be the event's international implications and their concrete impact on developing and developed countries. Panellists will critically review the legal results as well as the inside workings of the conference in terms of the environmental impact of climate change, but also with regard to effects in such seminal areas as trade and investment, human rights or health.
The panel will be chaired by Ms. Marie Claire Cordonier Segger (Centre for International Sustainable Development Law). Panellists include Dr. Charlotte Streck (Climate Focus), Prof. Markus Gehring (Cambridge University), Prof. Richard Janda (9I制作厂免费 University), Mr. S茅bastien Jodoin (Centre for International Sustainable Development Law), Ms. Alexandra Harrington (Centre for International Sustainable Development Law), Mr. Douglas Tingey (Borden Ladner Gervais) & Prof. Stephen Scharper (University of Toronto).
The panel will be followed at 6h30 PM by a reception in the Atrium, with the launch of Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: Kyoto, Copenhagen and Beyond by David Freestone & Charlotte Streck as well as the launch of the latest edition of the International Journal of Sustainable Development Law. Drinks, hot foods and chocolate-dipped strawberries will be served.
For more information please contact preynaud [at] cisdl.org.
Entry is free to the public.
Organized by The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, the 9I制作厂免费 International Law Society, the Journal for Sustainable Development Law and Policy, Environmental Law 9I制作厂免费, the 9I制作厂免费 Faculty of Law and Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.
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