🗣️more background before tomorrow's historic decisions by European Court of #HumanRights in landmark climate cases
📢@CIEL_tweets & partners had honour to provide ⚖️ ECHR CEDH with amicus briefs laying out key arguments ahead of the decisions (links below)
🧵A short thread

Dame Meg Taylor and Julian received a well-deserved standing ovation for their eloquent and inspiring remarks at the #ASILAM . We can't wait to announce details about Julian's upcoming residence Hawaiʻi's Law School, which we hope will be the start of a long-term collaboration.

Next week, the ECHR CEDH will decide its very first climate rulings. Join us for a 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 on 𝟭𝟮 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 with: Margaretha Wewerinke, Prof Sonia I. Seneviratne, Véronique Boillet - @veroniqueboillet.bsky.social, Corina Heri, Yann Robiou du Pont, Joie Chowdhury. To register: agenda.unil.ch/display/171144…

Almost 1 year to the day after the UNGA adopted Vanuatu's historic resolution for the ICJ to give an Advisory Opinion on state responsibilities on climate change, Vanuatu has filed its written submission to the ICJ in The Hague - 700+ pages long. Ambassador Maniuri & the team 👏

📣Withdrawn resolution on solar #geoengineering at #UNEA6 is a “victory for common sense”, says Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME!) Alliance - read the press statement here: geoengineeringmonitor.org/2024/02/unea6-…📣

Come and work with my brilliant colleague Natasa Nedeski on climate science in international law at Amsterdam Law School!

Thrilled to share this Transnatl Enviro Law article on a regime for nonuse of #SRM , led by Aarti Gupta, coauthored with Frank Biermann, Ellinore, Nadia Bernaz, Rakhyun E. Kim, Professor Louis Kotzé, Dana, Stacy D VanDeveer & Margaretha Wewerinke. #UNEA6
Dept of GIR, MAHE Directorate of Research, MAHE, Manipal Earth System Governance Project

The CIJ_ICJ has an unprecedented 3 requests for Advisory Opinions pending. But what is an Advisory Opinion and (why) do they matter? Molly Quell decided to find out on our behalf. She has you covered.
asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/justi…

Published #openaccess in the latest issue of Transnatl Enviro Law: 'The Rising Tide of Rights: Addressing Climate Loss and Damage through Rights-Based Litigation' by Margaretha Wewerinke

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#biodiversity #humanrights #rightsturn #litigation

Declaration of Judge Xue:

'The gravity of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza threatens the very existence of the people in Gaza and challenges the most elementary principles of morality and humanity.'

Indeed. Likewise, practitioners may feel inspired to reflect on the role of international law in confronting ecological destruction, structural discrimination and genocide. Are we collective realising international law's transformative potential?

PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ indicates provisional measures in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel tinyurl.com/5n4vmd4j

Generous, intellectually nourishing, hopeful, inspiring! Thank you Emily Jones Margaretha Wewerinke, Hillary Charlesworth. Such solidarity. This was terrific! Sustainable Global Economic Law - SGEL #posthuman #feminism #InternationalLaw

Moving to a bigger room b/c of all the (rightful) enthusiasm for these brilliant scholars Emily Jones Margaretha Wewerinke, Hillary Charlesworth, on #international #environmentallaw #rightsofnature from #feminist perspectives. Meaning more space to join us! Register through below link 👇

Dutch Caribbean islanders file groundbreaking new #climate case against the Netherlands, foregrounding rights violations from mitigation and adaptation failures.
Summons (in Dutch): bit.ly/3SgLXrn
More here: bit.ly/3RMx3aM

Our piece on the climate change advisory opinion proceedings before the ICJ is out! Privileged and humbled to have worked on this with Margaretha Wewerinke and Jacques Hartmann, and to feature in this important and timely special issue. Link: qil-qdi.org/the-advisory-p…

I am thrilled and honoured to host this panel with brilliant scholars Emily Jones, Hilary Charlesworth, Margaretha Wewerinke, critically looking at #environmentallaw and #rightsofnature from #feminist #posthuman perspectives. Can't wait!

A huge protest march now demanding ceasefire in Gaza at the UN climate conference in Dubai. #COP28

On the eve of the 75th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention, the US has again vetoed a ceasefire in the UN Security Council, thereby demonstrating its further complicity in the #genocide in #Palestine . Thousands have died since its last veto & more will die now. #Gaza_Genocide

Just out:

'The Rising Tide of Rights: Addressing #LossAndDamage through Rights-Based Litigation',

exploring how rights-based litigation to date has addressed loss and damage, and what is needed to unlock equitable redress at scale.

bit.ly/3tcSYPZ

#COP28