Practical information

• When: Monday 29 September 2025, 15h-16h30 (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna TIME)
• Where: Online Webinar
• This event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

About the event

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion on Human Rights and Climate Change, affirming that States have legal obligations to prevent significant harm to the climate system under human rights law, treaty law, and customary international law. In this unanimous decision, the Court placed human rights at the centre of international climate law, consolidating a growing consensus that climate obligations are grounded in human rights norms and principles. Curious to learn more about this topic ahead of the event? Check-out this blog post by GNHRE members on Climate Justice at the ICJ: Human Rights Implications of the Advisory Opinion

Conveners

The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) will co-organized this webinar in partnership with the Climate Institute of the University of Amsterdam (SEVEN), the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI).

Objectives

The event will discuss how the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion reframes states’ climate obligations through a human rights lens, and what this means for climate justice, advocacy, and future litigation.