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The Climate Litigation Cluster, part of the IUCN-WCEL Climate Change Law Specialist Group, serves as a global platform for disseminating knowledge and advancing innovative legal strategies in climate litigation. Co-led by experts, it fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle complex challenges, including corporate accountability, human rights, and attribution science. By engaging judges, policymakers, legal practitioners, academics, researchers, NGOs, civil servants, and in-house counsel, the cluster enhances capacity and understanding to drive effective climate governance. Through examining emerging trends and sharing insights across domestic and international jurisdictions, it supports cutting-edge legal approaches to combat climate change and promote sustainable development worldwide.

Cluster Leads: 

Ivano Alogna, Senior Research Fellow in Environmental and Climate Change Law – British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London 

Kate McKenzie, CEO, Climate Change Legal Initiative 

Webinars

  • Corporate Climate Litigation and the Just Transition: Delivering Accountability in the Net Zero Era 

Chaired by Cluster Leads Dr Kate McKenzie and Dr Ivano Alogna

Speakers:

  • Professor Dr Warren Lavey, Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and School of Earth, Society, and the Environment; legal counsel in environmental law, climate change, and public health
  • Dr Arman Sarvarian, Reader in Public International Law at the University of Surrey; legal counsel in public international law
  • Raja Sengupta, corporate lawyer in India

Read out blogpost here 

 

  • Rapid Response Webinar: Legal Reflections on the ICJ's Climate Advisory Opinion and Beyond

Organised in collaboration between the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), IUCN WCEL and the Climate Change Legal Initiative (C2LI).

Chaired by Prof. Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of Public International Law at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)

Speakers:

  • Prof. Surya Deva, Professor at the Macquarie Law School and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law and B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie University; UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development
  • Monica Feria Tinta, Barrister at Twenty Essex
  • Dr Kate McKenzie, CEO and Director, Climate Change Legal Initiative (C2LI); Co-Lead of the Climate Litigation Cluster, IUCN-WCEL, Climate Change Law Specialist Group
  • Prof. Nilufer Oral, Director of the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore; Member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC)
  • Prof. Francesco Sindico, Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde Law School; Co-Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Climate Change Specialist Group
  • Prof. Christina Voigt, Professor of Law at the University of Oslo; Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law
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