This climate justice law session will bring together some of the world’s leading legal thinkers on ecocide and climate justice, to share their knowledge related to the relationship between the crime of ecocide and climate justice; the potential for a new wave of climate litigation and an update on most recent developments concerning establishment of ecocide as an international environmental crime.
Speakers: Rizwana Hasan (Director, Bangladesh Environmental Law Association and member of the independent Expert Panel for the legal definition of ecocide.) Gita Parihar (Trustee of The Climate Justice Fund) Jojo Mehta (Chair of the Board, Stop Ecocide foundation) Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh (Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University)
