Paris 2022 Def

 

EUFJE held its 19th annual conference at the Council of State of France in Paris on 24 and 25 October 2022.

The theme of the conference was Climate law and litigation

You can find the program here.

 

The program included speakers from the European Commission, the European Environment Agency, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment of the London School of Economics and Political Science and national climate change case law presentations.

 EUFJE and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment developed a questionnaire (EN) for EUFJE judges  to understand what developments were occurring in climate litigation in Europe.

 

Grantham Research Institute drafted a summary report on Climate litigation in Europe.

 

Both days of the conference were recorded

and can be watched here:


24 October 2022

morning afternoon


25 October 2022

morning


 National reports

 

Albania Latvia
Belgium Norway
Bulgaria Poland
Denmark Portugal
Estonia Romania
Finland Serbia
France Sweden
Germany UK
Greece Ukraine
Italy A Italy B USA

 

Presentations

 

Blaz Kurnik, What science tells us
Christina Voigt, Recent developments at global level
Isobel Findlay, EU climate change objectives and EU Climate law & legal instruments to implement EU Climate Policy
Divya Chawla Jindal, Climate litigation study and judicial training programme
C. Higham & H. Narullah, Findings of the questionnaire and summary report
Ian Dove, UK Net Zero case High Court of Justice UK 18 July 2022
K. Van den berg, The Urgenda Case
F. Clarke, Friends of the Irish Environment v. Ireland
R. Noer, Nature & Youth and Greenpeace Nordic v. Government of Norway
L. Alwin, Milieudefensie et. al. v. Royal Dutch Shell plc
F. Bouquelle, The Klimaatzaak in Belgium
N. Kobylarz, Relevant case law of the ECtHR
K. Herzmann, Climate decision Federal Constitutional Court Germany