Do you want to protect the right of future generations to a healthy environment? Do the latest trends, developments, and innovations in climate law and governance interest you?
Since the 2005 COP 11 in Montreal, the Center for International Sustainable Development Law has been committed to mobilising the international law and governance community to help implement the UNFCCC, especially as Secretariat Host for the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI). For more information on the history and contributions of CLGI toward the Paris Agreement Goals, click here.
With its renowned international partners such as the International Bar Association and the University of Cambridge, CLGI will be present at in the Blue Zone during the UNFCCC COP28, as a hub for climate law and governance. With the unwavering support of its local partners, which include Middlesex University Dubai and University of Dubai, CLGI hosts a series of capacity-building events, ranging from the much-acclaimed Climate Law and Governance Day 2023 – to the Climate Law and Governance Specialisation Course facilitated by world-famous legal experts and policy-makers.
To arrange interviews or meetings in the Blue Zone with the UNFCCC COP28 CLGI Executive Secretary, Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and members of the CLGI Secretariat including Dr Antoinette Nestor and Adv Maeve McDermott, please e-mail CISDL Manager, Tejas Rao, at tejas.rao@cisdl.org
We warmly invite you to join us at our international programme of special preparatory, official side events and other sessions at the UNFCCC COP28 and beyond:
Accessible to all, in Dubai or online:
- Climate Law and Governance Day (CLGD 2023) both in person at Middlesex University Dubai and online on Tuesday, 5 December 2023. This year’s CLGD will focus on Engaging in Global Stocktake through Legal Lenses (Registration here)
- Climate Law and Governance Specialisation Course, which will occur in hybrid format on Thursday, 7 Dec 2023 in partnership with the University of Dubai, CISDL, the IUCN WCEL (Registration here)
And if you are in the Blue Zone during UNFCCC COP28 or accredited to join online, please do join us:
- On Wednesday December 6 at 2PM GST: Framing fusion regulations to stimulate acceptance, diversity, and equity in early fusion markets, at the ITER Pavilion, hosted alongside Energy for the Common Good (Click here)
- On Friday December 8 at 1:15PM GST: Exploring Law as an Enabler of Nature Based Solutions for Climate Action, at the IUCN ‘Unite for Nature’ Pavilion, hosted alongside the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (Click here)
- On Saturday December 9 at 10:30AM GST: Teaching Climate Law and the Clean Energy Transition at the GAUC Pavilion, hosted alongside a consortium of world-leading Universities (Click here)
- On Sunday December 10 afternoon (tbc): Climate Law for Highly Climate Vulnerable Countries at the LDC Pavilion, hosted alongside the Government of Sierra Leone
- On Monday December 11 at 3PM GST: Global Stocktake through Legal Lenses – Implementing outcomes via climate law & policy reform at SE Room 8, hosted alongside Advocates for International Development, Centre for Human Rights and Climate Change Research and World Future Council (Click here)
For further information or any queries about the CISDL and CLGI, please reach out to CISDL Manager, Adv Tejas Rao at tejas.rao@cisdl.org
For Press/Media, Further CLGI Background:
As a world-leading partnership of law and governance faculties, expert institutes, international organizations, lawmakers, civil society, government delegates and foremost practitioners, since 2005 CLGI has been fostering implementation of the UNFCCC and now its Paris Agreement with the support of a small secretariat in the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), McGill University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Chile, the University of Nairobi, Middlesex University Dubai and University of Dubai, among others.
CLGD 2023, the CLG Specialisation Course 2023 and the Climate Law Capacity Registry build on a series of special events co-hosted by key partners from the Climate Law and Governance Initiative during the UNFCCC climate conferences since the 2005 MOP1/COP11 in Montreal, Canada, to mobilise the international law and governance community to help implement the UNFCCC and most recently, the Paris Agreement in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals. This global international symposium and course aim to facilitate meaningful dialogue between COP delegates, observers and stakeholders, also keen students, with an interest in scaling up national and international law and governance related to climate change, engaging government representatives and leaders, leading international and domestic legal practitioners, and renowned legal experts.