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Human Rights and the Climate Change Crisis
The Right to a Healthy Environment, the Right to Water and the Right to Development

Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November 2020
Zoom Webinar

How should the right to a healthy environment be enforced? Is the right to development compatible with the right to a healthy environment? How should the promotion of collective interests be balanced with individual freedoms? The current pandemic highlights the urgent need for global measures to deal with common threats and the risk that such measures could be taken at the expense of individual freedoms. These uncertain times may present an opportunity to rethink society and the economy to combat climate change more effectively.

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THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2020

10–10:35 CET: Welcome and introduction

Nicolas Levrat, Director of the Global Studies Institute (GSI), AV¶ÌÊÓƵ

Micheline Calmy-Rey, Visiting professor, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ,
former President of Switzerland

Franz Perrez, Head of the International Affairs Division at the Federal Office for the Environment

David Boyd, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Associate Professor of Law, Policy, and Sustainability, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of British Columbia (by video message)

10:35–12:35 CET: Balancing individual freedoms and collective interests

Chair: Nicolas Levrat, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ

Independence, congruity or opposition? Human rights and climate action
Corina Heri, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Zurich

Collective interests and individual rights in climate change litigation: remarks on an ever-closer relationship
Anna-Julia Saiger, Humboldt AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Berlin

A historically sensitive allocation of the remaining global carbon budget. Why it is both justified and dynamically feasible
Lukas Meyer, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Graz

Empowerment: responsibility and the reconciliation of mitigation and development
Darrel Moellendorf, Goethe AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, Frankfurt

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13:35–15:05: Enforcing the human right to a healthy environment in Europe

Chair: Mara Tignino, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ

Bringing the right to water into the spotlight: a civil right before the European Court of Human Rights?
Angela Hefti, European Court of Human Rights

The right to water: a proxy for the right to a healthy environment?
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ

Keep up the wild-goose chase: why does the European Court of Human Rights need the right to a healthy environment?