Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 – Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change (Working Panel 3)
Professor Conor Gearty (Director of the Institute for Public Affairs, LSE, and GNHRE member) chaired Working Panel 3 at the Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 in Berlin, November 14th and 15th. Panel members : Professor Henry Shue (Oxford); Mary Robinson (Director of the Mary Robinson Institute: Climate Justice); Anna Grear (GNHRE Director, Reader in Law, Cardiff Law School; Dahrendorf Visiting Fellow 2013); Stephen Humphreys (LSE) and Marcus Hehdahl (Grantham Research Institute and Dahrendorf Doctoral Fellow 2013). The panel was provocative and engaging. It set the tone by asking the difficult questions about social and legal aspects of climate change, framing this as a question of climate justice/climate injustice; rights of future generations and equitable access to sustainable development. A special edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment will follow, due for publication in June 2014.
Anna Grear at the Dahrendorf Symposium – Short interview on climate change