Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference | Session 1: Climate Change and the Rule of Law

This two day conference was organised by the UCL Centre for Law and Environment and took place on Thursday 31 March - Friday 1 April 2022.
This major conference brought together key thinkers, including scholars, policymakers, civil society representatives, legal practitioners, judges and PhD students, to reflect on the connections and tensions between the rule of law and climate change.
There are many and complex links between the climate crisis and rule of law. Without rule of law values, any sustained response to climate change is increasingly difficult, whilst the instability threatened by climate change may place rule of law values at risk. In a quick-fire round of five minute contributions, we begin to set out the centrality of rule of law to our current crisis, from diverse functional and geographical perspectives.
This session on 'Climate Change and the Rule of Law - Diverse Perspectives' was chaired by Professor Steven Vaughan (UCL) and speakers include:
- Tom Burke (E3G)
- Lord Carnwath (UCL Laws)
- Professor Ademola Jegede (University of Venda)
- Professor Jeff King (UCL Laws)
- Professor Maria Lee (UCL Laws)
- Maria Socorro Manguiat (United Nations Environment Programme)
- Dr Birsha Ohdedar (SOAS, University of London)