Background

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on state responsibilities for climate change signifies a historic moment for climate justice. Accordingly, there is value in following the development of legal concepts, ideas, and procedures from the campaign for the Advisory Opinion, in order to provide a basis for the legal and environmental community to think about how past legal strategies can inform future ones. This two-day workshop features contributions from junior and senior scholars and practitioners – many of whom have been directly involved in the campaign. It offers a necessary perspective from the legal communities and movement behind the Advisory Opinion on how international law has addressed and will continue to address climate change as an existential problem of planetary proportions.