Date and time: Monday 11 September 2023, 4.30pm-5.30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recording<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The need for a \u2018just\u2019 transition has taken hold in international climate law. While early understandings of just transition focused almost exclusively on the rights of workers, the need to question the just transition narrative in light of the injustice of the starting point has led to critical engagement with just transition and theories of transformation. As over 90% of virgin plastics are derived from fossil fuels, the transition and transformation conversation must also be addressed in relation to the plastics challenge understood as part of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss and pollution and waste, all of which have grave implications for human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Majekolagbe<\/strong> will begin the lecture by tracing the history of the just transition narrative, critiquing its assumptions, and proposing a just transition framing focused on socio-ecological wellbeing rather than the allocation and distribution of resources. He will show that just transition necessarily becomes a human rights concern when wellbeing is the primary objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Seck <\/strong>will then explore how a human rights-based approach to state duties and business responsibilities, informed by the component parts of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, can contribute to transformational understandings of both climate and plastics \u2018transition\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Adebayo Majekolagbe<\/a>, Assistant Teaching Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Sara L. Seck<\/a>, Associate Professor and Yogis & Keddy Chair in Human Rights Law, Schulich School of Law, Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University; Director for North America, GNHRE<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adebayo Majekolagbe, Just Transition as Wellbeing: A Capability Approach Framing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sara L Seck, Blog Post \u201cTurning off the Plastics Tap through a BHR lens\u201d (May 25, 2023) Law at the End of the Day<\/em>, https:\/\/lcbackerblog.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/sara-l-seck-turning-off-plastics-tap.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n UNEP\/Dalhousie, Plastics, Human Rights and Business Responsibilities: An Issue Brief <\/em>(August 2022), https:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/handle\/20.500.11822\/41270<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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