If you would like to have something included in the next announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are especially interested in submissions outside of Europe and North America.
Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions:
Climate Law – Climate Change and Environmental Impact Assessment (abstracts)
The journal Climate Law, published by Brill/Nijhoff, is the world’s leading journal on climate change and the law. It is indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and listed as a Q1 journal in Scimago. The journal is preparing a special issue on Climate Change and Environmental Impact Assessment. Contributions should explore any of the links between the two concepts, such as the use of EIA as a tool for climate change mitigation or adaptation, and the application of EIA to climate projects. Abstracts and CVs are due April 5, 2025. See more here.
Queen Mary Postgraduate Legal Research Conference 2025 (abstracts)
The Queen Mary Annual PhD Law Conference 2025, in association with the Queen Mary Law Journal, invites papers that examine the relationship between law and inclusion. Although law is sometimes framed as a means of promoting inclusion, it has also contributed to entrenching elitism, exclusion and inequality. We therefore welcome papers that explore the potential of the law to promote inclusion, as well as those that question its role in reinforcing systems of power and exclusion in different social and cultural contexts. The conference aims to provide a platform for a robust discourse on inclusion, diversity, equality and non-discrimination in law and society, bringing together diverse voices and perspectives from across legal and related disciplines. Conference: June 18-19, 2025. Abstract deadline: April 6, 2025. See more here.
International Law Weekend 2025 (panel submissions)
The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) is pleased to invite panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2025 (ILW 2025)—the premier international law event of the fall season. ILW 2025 will take place October 23-25, 2025 in New York City. The unifying theme for ILW 2025 is Crisis as Catalyst in International Law. The ILW Organizing Committee (Committee) invites panel proposals to be submitted online by April 20, 2025 through this Google form. See more here.
Calls for Input:
Military Activities and Toxics – issued by Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights
Purpose: To inform the Special Rapporteur’s 2025 thematic report to the United Nations General Assembly. Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 54/10, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Marcos Orellana, will present a thematic report, including recommendations, to the UN General Assembly in October 2025. His thematic report will focus, in accordance with his mandate, on military activities and toxics. Deadline: April 1, 2025. See more here.
Human Rights Defenders Working on Climate Change and a Just Transition – issued by Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders
Purpose: To inform the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on human rights defenders working on climate change and a just transition, to be presented to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in October 2025. Deadline: April 30, 2025. See more here.
Opportunities:
Green Climate Fund, Climate Impact Project Specialist (International: Asia-Pacific and Africa Regions)
GCF is seeking a top-tier individual with a demonstrable track record of harnessing experience, energy and networks to tackle complex global climate change challenges. You will be committed to making a positive, measurable difference through a mission-driven role, and thrive in a fast-paced, diverse environment. The Climate Impact Project Specialist reporting to the Regional Director will be responsible for ensuring that the GCF’s investments in funded activities lead to measurable, monitorable and credible results by ensuring the integrity of the estimates and targets of GHG emission reductions in all Funded Activities, as well as Readiness Proposals. Deadline: April 13, 2025. See more here.
Climate Across the Curriculum Training (Fort Collins CO, USA)
The School of Global Environmental Sustainability and the Colorado State University Climate Initiative invite faculty members, instructors, and academic coordinators from universities within the United States to apply for the CSU Climate Across the Curriculum Training program. CSU hosts this training to offer tools for instructors to incorporate climate change research and education into undergraduate courses and create opportunities for peer collaboration about climate change on campus. We are searching for 15 applicants from other institutions to join us for this year’s training from August 12-14, 2025, at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Our goal is to help attendees learn how to replicate and establish the program within their own schools. Deadline: April 25, 2025. See more here.
Pace University, Executive Director Energy/Climate Center (White Plains NY, USA)
The Pace Energy and Climate Center is seeking an Executive Director to head its unique program as an energy teaching and policy center giving students hands on experience in handling current significant energy challenges and opportunities. The Center’s mission is to protect the earth’s environment and mitigate climate change through solutions that transform the ways society supplies and consumes energy, to be a thought leader in the development of such solutions, and to educate our law students with respect to the way forward in addressing climate change. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with preference given to early applicants. See more here.
Events:
Emerging Technologies and Environmental, Energy and Climate Law (webinar)
Join us on April 8, 2025 at 1PM CEST for the launch of RECIEL Insider, a new webinar series spotlighting the journal’s Special Issues – and get the inside track on the latest environmental legal scholarship. Our inaugural edition will focus on the recently published Special Issue on Emerging Technologies and Environmental, Energy and Climate Law. Register for the Zoom link here.
Circles of solidarity: Reimagining environment and climate politics scholarship in a crisis-ridden world (online)
Environmental and climate politics scholarship must confront the triple crises of vulgar inequalities, resurgence of authoritarianism, and the ever-worsening climate and environmental breakdowns. Any meaningful response to this ‘polycrisis’ requires an astute understanding of the extractive nature of academia, which is built on the binaries of Global North vs South; mainstream vs critical; and celebrity vs the plebian. In this Earth Day Keynote, Prakash Kashwan invites collective thinking on how to build scholarly communities that foster rigorous exchange and learning without promoting celebrity culture or reinforcing structural oppressions. Date: April 22, 2025. See more here.
Indo-China Workshop on Environmental and Climate Law (online)
The Law in Emerging Contexts research group at Northumbria Law School is organising a two-day Indo-China environmental and climate law workshop May 12-13, 2025. The workshop aims to convene leading environmental and climate law experts from India and China to engage in discussions surrounding legal frameworks, governance mechanisms, and commitments to sustainability within each jurisdiction. By exploring the environmental and climate laws and policies of these two nations, the workshop seeks to identify challenges, strategies, and insights to draw from that can influence global sustainability efforts. Register here.
New Publications/Releases:
Article: Temporalities in Crisis: Analysing the Sacchi v. Argentina Case and Children’s Rights in the Climate Emergency, Florencia Paz Landeira; Children & Society. Read here.
Article: Whales and international climate change law, Michaela Girvan; Responsible Science Journal. Read here.
Blog: Carbon credit concerns: Tanzania’s Maasai fear ‘threat to existence,’ Ndia Marikoi; Club of Mozambique. Read here.
Case Note: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland: Making climate change litigation history, Annalisa Savaresi; RECIEL. Read here.
News: A decadelong climate lawsuit saw plaintiffs grow from childhood to adulthood. Now, it’s over, Claire Rush; AP News. Read here.