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CLASS online / Annalisa Savaresi: Understanding the two sides of rights-based climate litigation

When the stars do not align: Understanding the two sides of rights-based climate litigation Annalisa Savaresi is Associate Professor of International Environmental Law at the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland, where she serves as Director for the Joint Nordic Master Programme in Environmental Law. She furthermore holds a senior research post at the University of Stirling, UK and visiting professorships at the University of Bologna (Italy) and the University of La Sabana (Colombia). Annalisa is an expert in climate change law, with 20 years’ experience working with international and nongovernmental organizations. She has written extensively on the relationship between human rights and climate change law. Her work has been cited widely, including by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Annalisa currently is Director for Europe of the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment, associate editor of the Review of European, Comparative and International Law and member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She has given evidence to the UK, the EU and Scottish Parliaments and sits on the Board of Environmental Standards Scotland, the new body scrutinising Scottish public authorities’ compliance with environmental law established by the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021. In her lecture, prof. Savaresi explains the current growth in climate litigation worldwide within various litigation fora (international, regional and national), and describes the main trends in the right-based litigation, both pro-climate and anti-climate. She analyses the types of substantive and procedural human rights obligations most commonly invoked in climate litigation, and also outlines some future prospects of climate litigation in the international and national human rights institutions. The lecture was given on 14 October 2021.