WCEL Completes IUCN WCEL Environment Week
From Monday 31 May through Friday 4 June 2021, WCEL hosted IUCN WCEL Environment Week, a 5-day webinar series exploring environmental law solutions to address current threats to the natural environment.
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IUCN WCEL Environment Week consisted of a series of daily roundtable discussions with leading environmental law experts from around the world. They addressed pressing environmental issues including why it is taking so long to formulate binding principles which would govern the relations between humans and the environment, how law can help to address climate change by exploring the interplay between legislation and litigation, and how the text of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea should be used to respond to the needs of the twenty-first century.
Over 2000 participants registered for the webinars. The webinars featured 30 different speakers and moderators from around the world representing the judiciary, academia, government, and the non-profit sectors, including:
- Ambassador Marie Jacobsson, Principal Legal Adviser on International Law, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- Lord Robert Carnwath, Former Justice, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Professor Christina Voigt, University of Oslo, Chair, IUCN-WCEL Climate Change Specialist Group
- Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
- Angela Andrade, Director of Environmental Policy, Conservation International - Colombia, Chair, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
- Professor David Boyd, University of British Columbia, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
- Professor Thomas Lovejoy, George Mason University
The webinars were recorded and are available to view below:
Climate Change and the Law: Dynamics between Legislation and Litigation
Developing Effective Strategies for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement
For more information, please visit the IUCN WCEL Environment Week webpage here.
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