Below, please find our fortnightly call for submissions and a collated list of events, opportunities, and recent publications. If you would like to have something included in our next announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are particularly interested in submissions from outside Europe and North America.
Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions:
Shifting Grounds: Gendered Migration in a Warming World (abstracts)
Climate change is reshaping migration patterns worldwide, but its impact is not gender-neutral. Shifting Grounds: Gendered Migration in a Warming World explores how climate-induced migration intersects with gender, revealing the unique vulnerabilities, roles, and resilience of women, transgender, and gender-diverse individuals. This interdisciplinary volume brings together global case studies and theoretical insights to examine how gender norms shape decisions around migration, access to resources, safety, and recovery. Abstract deadline: June 16, 2025. See more here.
Decolonizing Research Methods: A Practice-Based Approach (abstracts)
Decolonial research challenges many dominant knowledge paradigms by advocating for epistemological and methodological plurality while maintaining ethical engagement and responsibilities. As interest in decolonial approaches grows, so too does the need to critically examine how these frameworks are taught. There is a growing need for transforming pedagogical approaches that are both practical and critical for teaching decolonial research. Many educators often struggle with how to move beyond theory into practice in ways that are meaningful and contextually relevant.
This edited volume contributes to decolonial pedagogies by centering on the application of decolonizing research methods and practices. We invite you to propose chapters that share narrative and reflective decolonial stories, in teaching and research, in academic or community settings. You might focus on, for example: theoretical and philosophical framing; specific methods; or full case studies. In each case, we encourage you to include specific examples illustrating decolonial methods in practice. Abstract deadline: July 2, 2025. See more here.
Climate Reparations: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge, Faith, and Philosophy for Justice (blogs)
This call, from Kabarak University in Kenya, seeks to address a critical gap in climate justice research by foregrounding Indigenous knowledge systems and belief structures that affirm the need for climate reparations. We invite scholars, practitioners, and activists to submit concise reflections addressing key questions and perspectives on climate reparations. Specifically, we are interested in how faith traditions, Indigenous worldviews, and philosophical frameworks can offer solutions to the climate crisis and inspire a rethinking of climate justice through the lens of reparations. Blog deadline: August 15, 2025. See more here.
Calls for Input:
Concentration of Corporate Power in Global Food Systems and its Implications for the Realization of the Right to Food
Purpose: To inform the Special Rapporteur’s upcoming thematic report to the UN General Assembly, October 2025. The Special Rapporteur seeks inputs from both States and civil society to better understand how the concentration of power in the hands of a relatively small number of corporations affects food systems, governance, and people’s everyday lives — and to explore transformative alternatives that prioritize human rights, social equity, and ecological sustainability. Deadline: June 12, 2025. See more here.
On the Draft of General Comment No. 27 on Children’s Right to Access to Justice and to an Effective Remedy
Purpose: Call for submissions on the draft of general comment No. 27 on children’s right to access to justice and to an effective remedy. Issued by the CRC. Deadline: June 30, 2025. See more here.
Biodiversity and Human Rights
Purpose: To inform the High Commissioner’s global analytical study on the implementation of a human rights-based approach into the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, in line with the provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, consistent with the considerations set out in section C of the Framework and taking into consideration the outcomes of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention. Deadline: June 30, 2025. See more here.
Opportunities:
ClientEarth, Forest Governance Lawyer (Jakarta, Indonesia)
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified lawyer in Indonesia to contribute to the forest governance work of ClientEarth’s Food, Oceans and Land Use (FOLU), Asia Programme. The successful candidate will play a key role in advancing the work on forest governance, particularly on social forestry, leveraging their expertise in community-based natural resources management and biodiversity protection in Indonesia. This is a fixed-term position from July 2025 to December 2026, with the possibility of extension or conversion to a permanent role based on performance and organizational needs. Deadline: June 2, 2025. See more here.
Climate Action Network Europe, Trade and Climate Policy Coordinator (Brussels, Belgium)
We’re currently seeking a committed and motivated individual with demonstrated experience in trade and climate policy to work on various files with us, including investment protection, ISDS (Investor State Dispute Settlement), and Trade Agreements and other processes relating to climate justice and just transitions. Full-time or 80% (4 days per week), working in Brussels or remotely. Deadline: June 2, 2025. See more here.
Université Paris Dauphine, PhD in Environment and Legal Orders (Paris, France)
In the face of a triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution), legal orders play, and will continue to play, an important role in how societies respond well to destabilising environmental futures. Understanding the role of law and legal orders is thus central to the just ecological transition, and to this project. Candidates with a PhD proposal within the general theme of ‘Environment and Legal Orders’ are therefore encouraged to apply for this post. Deadline: June 15, 2025. See more here.
Events:
The Implications of the Supreme Court’s Finch Decision (in person – Aberdeen, Scotland)
In June 2024, the UK Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in the Finch case challenging the Surrey County Council’s decision to approve oil production. The majority of the Court determined that the planning permission was unlawful, as the Council failed to assess the downstream or Scope 3 emissions resulting from the combustion of the produced oil. The implications of the Finch decision are far-reaching – with the Jackdaw and Rosebank permits subsequently quashed by the Court of Session in late 2024. This event will convene leading academics, legal and industry practitioners in this area to explore the latest research and knowledge on climate impact assessment both in the UK and internationally. Date: May 29, 2025. Location: University of Aberdeen. Register here.
Ocean justice: Championing fair and inclusive blue economy (in person – Nice, France)
As discussion around sustainable use of the ocean expands, it is critical to deepen our understanding about justice within new developments in the marine environment. Little attention has been given to the lived experience of ocean-dependent communities who are particularly at risk of social injustice and dispossession, and to their very definition and understanding of the notion of ocean justice. This solution-focused event will explore how different speakers and participants understand ocean justice and the obstacles to achieving an inclusive blue economy. The meeting will provide an avenue for participants to share their innovation and best practices that could serve as viable routes to ocean justice. Date: June 9, 2025 at 13:00. Location: NEO – Art & Culture Lab, Nice. Register here.
New Publications/Releases:
Article: Reimagining International Environmental Law, Anxhela Mile, Railla Puno, and Alexandra Horn; Environmental Law Review. Read here.
Article: Representing Climate Wreckers, Camila Bustos; NYU Environmental Law Journal. Read here.
Podcast: Prefiguring a Better, Post-Growth World (with Birsha Ohdedar); Law at the End of the World. Listen here.
Policy Brief: The Precautionary Principle and Deep-Seabed Mining: A State obligation under international law that must be urgently respected, Astrid Puentes Riaño and Elisa Morgera; OHCHR. Read here.
Special Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law – Fit for 55 and Beyond. Read here.