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Thank you for registering to attend the online Te Piringa Environmental Law Symposium, we look forward to seeing you on 19th October, 2021via ZOOM.
Te Piringa Environmental Law Symposium
Presentations from leading international jurists, policymakers and academics on climate change and biodiversity threats and trends.
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About this event
Te Piringa Environmental Law Symposium
Please join us for Te Piringa Environmental Law Symposium, supported by IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, a one-day online symposium showcasing cutting-edge environmental law research and policy. The Symposium is held in celebration of Te Piringa Faculty of Law's 30th anniversary.
Te Piringa Environmental Law Symposium features a keynote presentation and four expert panel sessions. The symposium speakers are internationally leading scholars in the fields of environmental law, climate science, economics, indigenous scholarship and related fields. The symposium specialist panel topics are:
- opportunities for green economic recovery and the zero carbon movement;
- biodiversity threats, trends and responses;
- climate change and human rights; and
- legal responses to climate change: international law and domestic litigation.
The four panel discussions will highlight innovative approaches to environmental governance in the face of increasing climate change and biodiversity challenges.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Keynote Speaker - Liz Fisher (University of Oxford)
- Sam Adelman (University of Warwick)
- Neville Ash (Director, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre)
- Justice Antonio Benjamin (Chair Emeritus, World Commission on Environmental Law, Justice of the National High Court of Brazil and founding member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment)
- David Boyd (UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment)
- Kai Chan (University of British Columbia)
- Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio (Chair, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law)
- James Every-Palmer QC (Lawyers for Climate Action NZ)
- Rob Fowler (University of Adelaide)
- Markus Gehring (University of Cambridge)
- Anna Grear (Cardiff University)
- Douglas Leys (UN Green Climate Fund General Counsel)
- Tony Oposa (litigator and activist)
- Sir Jonathon Porritt (sustainability campaigner and writer)
- Hon Justice Brian Preston (Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, founding member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment)
- Jacinta Ruru (University of Otago)
- Hon James Shaw (New Zealand Minister for Climate Change, Associate Minister for the Environment (Biodiversity))
- Christina Voigt (Chair, World Commission on Environmental Law)
- Stefan Weishaar (University of Groningen)
The Symposium Programme
You can see the full symposium programme HERE
Viewing the symposium presentations
The panels are not run concurrently, allowing viewers to attend all panel discussions on the day. You can view the symposium presentations live by clicking the ZOOM Webinar link HERE .
All panel presentations will be recorded, and a full recording of the symposium will be made available to registered attendees following the event.
Te Piringa Faculty of Law is immensely proud to be celebrating its 30 year anniversary, and 30 years of New Frontiers.
Te Piringa translates as the coming together of peoples and cultures. We first opened our doors in 1991, and we have been gathering together ever since. Our anniversary theme - 30 Years of New Frontiers - acknowledges that Te Piringa, as a Law Faculty, not only broke new ground at its inception, but continues to push outward into emerging and vital fields. If you would like to learn more about the 30th Anniversary click HERE