The Right to a Sustainable Environment
One area of discussion which has been growing in importance in recent years, as a result of global warming and globalisation, is the relationship between humanitarian law and environmental law and regulation.
With regard to the question of proximity between a violation and the corresponding infringement of a human right, this panel will consider whether there is a need to dramatically shift the focus of environmental protection and view it as part of the Human Right’s agenda, rather than its own, ‘lesser’ area. This Panel will consider the interconnected nature of environmental and human rights in the 21st century.
Speakers
Ben Caldecott is Programme Director at the University of Oxford’s School of Enterprise and Environment and a trustee of the Green Alliance Think Tank. His involvement in a range of institutions from CCC to Policy Exchange alongside a wide range of publications a media commentaries gives Ben an insight into issues of environment, energy and sustainability issues that is hard to parallel.
More information on Ben’s career and work can be found here.
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Dominic Roser is James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights with an overarching research interest on climate change. Currently, he works on a rights-based theory of decisions under risk and uncertainty and how such a theory must both deviate from and learn from decision-theoretic accounts. He is particularly concerned with applying this theory to risks to human rights of future generations and to the debate about precautionary principles.
Find out more about Dominic’s work here.
For more information about the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights in general here.
Dr Damien Short is Director of the Human Rights Consortium and a Reader in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study, London. Currently researching the HR impacts of extreme energy processes, like Tar Sands and Fracking, Dr Short has worked with AI, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Climate Justice Collective and contributes to several publications in the field of HR.
Read some of Dr Short’s papers here.
Dr Ole Pedersen is a reader in Environmental Law at Newcastle University. With a current research focus on how aspects of environmental law relate to rights and justice and vast contribution to the academic literature on this area of the law, Dr Pedersen promises to be an engaging panellist.
Dr Yoriko Otomo is a Lecturer in Law at SOAS, and received her doctorate from the University of Melbourne. She was previously a lecturer at Keele University, and has taught at Birkbeck (University of London), the International Center for Legal Studies and the University of Melbourne. She has also worked at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (London School of Economics), and Bleyer Lawyers (Australia). Find out more information on Dr Otomo's work here.
