[CIL-APCEL] Climate Change and the Courts

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April

11

Thursday
Speaker:The Rt. Hon. Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2012–2020)

Dr Linda Yanti Sulistiawati
Senior Research Fellow
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, NUS Law
Moderator:Dr Nilufer Oral
Director
Centre for International Law, NUS

Assistant Professor Tara Maria Davenport
Deputy Director
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, NUS Law

Mr Sean Tseng
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, NUS Law
Time:12:00 pm to 1:15 pm (SGT)
Venue:Lecture Theatre (Block B, Level 3)
NUS Law Bukit Timah Campus
469 Bukit Timah Road
Type of Participation:Open To Public

Description

PROGRAMME

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

The Right Hon Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill has been a practising lawyer for 50 years, as a barrister and as a judge at all levels up to the UK Supreme Court, where he served from 2012 to 2020. Throughout his career, Lord Carnwath has taken a particular interest in issues relating to planning and the environment, and administrative law, and has given many leading judgments in these areas. He was a founding member of the European Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE) and of the Global Institute of Judges on the Environment (GIJE) and has taken part in many initiatives to improve judicial understanding of environmental issues in different parts of the world. In 2014 he gave the 28th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur on “Environmental law in a global society”. He is now an Associate Member of Landmark Chambers, and (among other academic posts) a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (LSE). During the lecture on 11 April, Lord Carnwath will look at the role of the courts around the world in advancing the cause of protection against climate change, both before and since the crucial Paris Agreement of 2015.

Dr Linda Yanti Sulistiawati is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) and an Associate Professor of Law in Universitas Gadjah Mada. She is an internationally recognised scholar in Indonesian international environmental law and her research has established her as a leading expert who is frequently consulted by the Indonesian government and international organizations. Her research focuses on international environmental issues, such as climate change, REDD+, land issues and customary (adat) issues. Dr Yanti Sulistiawati was a member of the delegation leading Indonesia’s negotiations of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. From 2018 to 2021, she was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. During the lecture on 11 April, Dr Yanti Sulistiawati will share her research on climate change related cases in Indonesia.

Contact Information

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