submitting abstracts is April 1. *I'm sorry
for the late notice!
(Please don't submit them to me! The Call for Abstracts explains what to
do.)
Cheers,
John Knox
John H. Knox
*UN Independent Expert on **Human Rights and the Environment*
*Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International
Hi everyone,
Happy Bastille Day!
Here's a link to a short piece I wrote for openglobalrights on human rights
and the environment:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/john-knox/greening-human-rights
Just a reminder: I send out a newsletter every couple of months briefly
describing act
Hi everyone,
A few more sources that may be of interest -- as Ron said, many of you will
already be familiar with them, but for those who aren't . . .
Climate Action Tracker has assessed many countries' INDCs, in light of
their "fair share", at http://climateactiontracker.org/countries.html.
Obvi
Hi everyone,
I didn't reply to Ron's initial inquiry, but for what it's worth, I would
just add the following:
It's important to look beyond the very limited mechanisms available in
international law to push for compliance with Paris in general, and the
NDCs in particular.
The NDCs and other n
Hi everyone,
Professor Aoife Daly, at University College Cork's School of Law, is
working on a really interesting (and big) project on children's rights and
climate action, which has a couple of exciting opportunities for PhD and
post-doc research. I'm posting this at her request - please feel fre
Hi everyone,
As some of you may already know, the University of Maryland's environmental law
clinic has come under attack in the Maryland state legislature. As has
happened before with other environmental law clinics (e.g., Tulane's, Oregon's,
Pittsburgh's), Maryland's clinic has annoyed pow
Three years ago, in March 2008, at a meeting of the denialist
International Conference on Climate Change, John Coleman, the founder of
the Weather Channel, said that Al Gore should be sued for fraud. (He
also blasted the current Weather Channel for believing in climate
change.)
--"Is he committ
