The third annual online GNHRE-UNEP Summer/Winter School on Environmental and Human Rights, in collaboration with University of Southampton Law School takes place from 11-15 September 2023. This year the Summer/Winter School will focus on the theme Transformations and Transitions

Come join our brilliant Adaptation Futures session on compound, cascading and complex risks and their impacts. @Marleen_Ruiter @JuliusSchlmbrgr Maarten van Aalst Portia Adade Williams

Sustainability challenges are like a game of Whac-A-Mole: Solving one problem often leads to new ones. PROBLEMSHIFTING presents a database of problem-shifting cases, derived from a global survey with input from 300 experts. Visit, share, contribute! 📮problemshifting.directory

Courts are becoming planetary actors and Anthropocene institutions in their own right through their role in climate litigation. They are increasingly relevant for #EarthSystemLaw as we argue in this new OA paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… Earth System Governance Project Sabin Center Task Force on Earth System Law

Very happy to have contributed to this multidisciplinary work on the law and governance of short-lived climate pollutants. My chapter considers how the global regulation of HFCs (a greenhouse gas) could be strengthened under the Montreal Protocol. Available open access! 🎉

The result of a two year project: an interdisciplinary team proposes the #PlanetaryCommons as a new approach to safeguarding earth’s critical biophysical systems in PNASNews. A pleasure to have co-led this with Johan Rockström! Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) Earth System Governance Project

In this case note, we discuss judicial engagement with Indigenous communities' cultural beliefs and practices and knowledge related to sustainability in recent SA climate litigation. It was a pleasure to work with Dr Caiphas Soyapi & Professor Louis Kotzé! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢We are just days before historic decisions by the 🇪🇺⚖European Court of #HumanRights in 3⃣landmark #ClimateJustice cases The significance of these cases could not be overstated. @CIEL_tweets' experts will follow closely & available for comments, see: ciel.org/news/https-www…

Excited to have co-organised the first of this year's IISJ-IISL Oñati workshops, along with the brilliant Aoife Daly #ceasefirenow, on children's rights & the right to a healthy environment. We have an incredible group of participants talking about intersections and opportunities 🎉

It's long been a question: could all of humanity actually live within the Doughnut? Thanks to Hauke Schlesier et al it's just been quantified for the 1st time. And the answer is probably yes - if we transform to economies of sufficiency. Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A post @toniatigre, @NataliaUrzola and I wrote on #gender in the #klimaseniorinnen case - we argue that while the ECHR CEDH acknowledges gender as a concern it fails to recognise how gender shapes individual experiences of #climate harm

Hurray my article in the prestigious Review of International Studies (RIS) just went live! Please read, engage, and share. "Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa" | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4dB5Odf

Brews Soyapi, Professor Louis Kotzé & I reflect on the SA courts' recognition of Indigenous communities' cultural beliefs & practices in their efforts to protect the West Coast from seismic surveys & fossil fuel extraction. Shell's appeal was heard on 17 May theconversation.com/south-african-…

Yesterday, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea delivered an Advisory Opinion on climate change 🌏 Kicking off a joint symposium with the Sabin Center, KOREY SILVERMAN-ROATI & MAXIM BÖNNEMANN explain the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea-opinion and why it matters verfassungsblog.de/the-itlos-advi…

Volume 33(2) of the @RECIELJournal is now live! Spotlighting our Special Issue: Law in a Hyperconnected World: Joining the Dots for Sustainable Futures, guest-edited by Michelle Lim 林美玲 @NengyeLiu and Dr Stefanie Schacherer buff.ly/3zSKsIT

Clemens Kaupa IVM - VU Amsterdam Mingzhe Zhu Pontian Okoli @LovleenBhullar Uni of Birmingham Our case note in this Volume comes from Louise du Toit (University of Southampton Law School), Caiphas Soyapi and Professor Louis Kotzé (NWU Faculty of Law) focusing on the victories of Indigenous peoples in South Africa. buff.ly/3zOCtwJ

Congrats to AI at Meta on tracking and releasing the carbon footprint estimation for Llama 3! 🌎 Also a good reminder that even with current optimization approaches, this is orders of magnitude more than previous generations of models (eg 100T for BLOOM, 540T for Llama 2) 🫠

CfP - Abstracts now being received for Ex-situ Conservation Measures: Between Wild Animal Exploitation and Wild Animal Welfare, part of the Annual RoL and Sustainable Development Seminar hosted at University of Southampton Law School 7 Feb 2025.