Date & Time: 29 September 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET
Format: Online
Overview:
This webinar explores the landmark ICJ Advisory Opinion (23 July 2025), which affirmed states’ legal obligations to prevent significant climate harm under human rights, treaty, and customary international law. The discussion will analyze how the decision reframes climate obligations through a human rights lens and its implications for climate justice, advocacy, and litigation.
Speakers: Astrid Puentes Riaño, Vishal Prasad, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Mamadou Hébié
Welcome: Claudia Ituarte-Lima
Moderator: Annalisa Savaresi
Organizers: The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) will co-organized this webinar in partnership with the Climate Institute of the University of Amsterdam (SEVEN), the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI).
For further details or registration, please see the GNHRE website gnhre.org/?p=18433
