Varieties of Climate Agency with a special focus on Climate Litigation - An International Workshop

2 day International Workshop

Day 1: 1.00 pm - 4.45 pm, Monday 4 November 2024  

Day 2: 10.00 am - 3.30 pm, Tuesday 5 November 2024

Workshop Programme

Against the background of existing scholarship on climate law and governance which has been attracting an international interdisciplinary research community (Climate Law and Governance Day @COP28), this research focuses on the global opportunity structure for climate change (Aykut, Wiener et al. 2021; Wiener et al. 2023) in order to identify under which conditions climate agents are enabled or constrained to act: what are regulatory and customary conditions of agency in a global context? The research takes account of and follows up from Professor Wiener’s current research on climate litigation and social drivers of climate change which has been conducted at the Hamburg Excellence Cluster CLICCS (Wiener 2022) and on her well-renowned work on norm contestation in international relations (Wiener 2018). The workshop will also benefit from the research done in the CCE on mapping a climate atlas of legal rules and litigation challenges and research on climate change in EU trade law (Gehring et al, 2023). It will have space for graduate researchers from Law, Land Economy, Political Science and Cambridge Zero.  

Pre-reading Materials

Climate Litigation as a Social Driver Towards Deep Decarbonisation I: A Framework and a General Assessment

Climate Litigation as a Social Driver Towards Deep Decarbonisation II: Zooming in on Two Cases

Defending the Defenders: State Responsibilities to Respect Climate Justice, Rule of Law and Rights of Counsel in Climate Litigation Worldwide

Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: The Role of International Law and Climate Litigation

Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 - Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation

EU Climate Litigation - New Perspectives on the Just Transition

Supported by the DAAD Cambridge Hub

This workshop is organised as part of the research project funded by the DAAD between the University of Hamburg and the University of Cambridge and hosted by the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, UK and Hughes Hall in the University of Cambridge. The research has benefited from exchanges with our colleagues in the excellence cluster Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), especially the subproject B2 on Climate governance and the synthesis project, as well as from reviewers of the Hamburg Climate Futures Outlooks. Acknowledgment of funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), German Government’s Excellence Strategy. EXC 2037: Climate, climatic change, and society (CLICCS), award number 390683824.

If you wish to attend in person please email Jellie Molino jmm278@cam.ac.uk to register your attendance.