Name: Intersectionality and the human rights implications of climate change
Start: 2025-01-30T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-30T20:00:00+00:00
Location: University of Nottingham, Law and Social Sciences Building, Room B63

Join the HRLC at our Annual Lecture with Prof. Elisa Morgera on 'Intersectionality and the human rights implications of climate change'.
About this Event

The Human Rights Law Centre is delighted to invite you to our upcoming Annual Human Rights Lecture on 'Intersectionality and the human rights implications of climate change'. This year we are excited to be joined by Professor Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights and Professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde.

Over the last five year, multiple efforts have been made to clarify human rights issues and obligations in relation to climate change by UN special procedures and treaty bodies. These efforts sought to respond to the increasing – and increasingly alarming – evidence, across sectors and regions, about the severe, pervasive and unequal negative human rights impacts of climate change, and the ineffective and harmful nature of some of our climate responses. The lecture will explore how and to what extent this body of evidence and guidance developed can help integrating consideration of intersectionality in decision-making on climate change at all levels, as a basis for more effective and non-discriminatory climate action.

This event will take place on Thursday, 30 January 2025 at 17:30 (GMT) in the Law and Social Sciences Building, Room B63. The event will be streamed so that viewers can join us online.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A/discussion and a Drinks Reception.

Elisa Morgera is the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights. She is Professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK) and Adjunct Professor in International and European Union Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Previously, she worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Development Programme in the Eastern Caribbean. In various capacities, she has advised governments and civil society in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific.