Tuesday 31 May, 2022
Opening and Introduction: 50 years of the Environmental Rule of Law
Dr. Georgina Lloyd, Regional Coordinator (Asia and the Pacific) of Environmental Law and Governance for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Rocky Guzman, Deputy Director, Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law
Session 1: Role of Environmental Law in addressing the pollution crisis - IUCN Oceania/ Oceania Global Environmental Law Partnership
Maria-Goreti Muavesi, Senior Environmental Legal Officer, IUCN Oceania Regional Office
Ms. Naima Te Maile Fifita, Student, William S. Richardson School of Law, the University of Hawai’i at Manoa; Extern, IUCN Oceania Regional Office
Mason Smith, Regional Director, IUCN Oceania Regional Office
Patricia Parkinson, PaNEL Member, Law Working Group of PIRT Roundtable
Sefanaia Nawadra, Director-General, South Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Senoveva Mauli, Chair, Solomon Islands Environmental Law Association
Session 2: Emerging areas of environmental law to address biodiversity loss - National Environmental Law Association (Australia)
Ruby Hamilton, National Environmental Law Association (Australia)
Dr. Michelle Lim, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University Law School’s Centre for Environmental Law
Prof Robert Cunningham, Dean and Head of Curtin Law School, barrister within Murray Chambers, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law
Session 3: Women in Environmental Advocacy: Trends and Evolving Responses to improve Environmental Rule of Law in Asia – ClientEarth and IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
Joyce Melcar Tan, Client Earth, Opening remarks
Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Stewards of nature representing dolphins and whales (Philippines)
Gloria Ramos, Oceana Philippines, Marine plastic pollution and key points for the global plastics treaty (regional)
Nathalie Faure, Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC), Community forestry (Thailand)
Avril De Torres, Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), Biodiversity and energy (Philippines / Southeast Asia)
Elizabeth Wu, ClientEarth, Shifting financial flows towards sustainable energy systems (regional)
Moderators:
Joyce Melcar Tan, ClientEarth and Hiba Mohamad, ClientEarth
Session 4: Constitutional Environmental Rights - LAWASIA
Dr. Judith Preston, Introductory remarks & Acknowledgment of Country
Asanka Edirisinghe, Environmental Rule of Law and the past, practice, and potential of the legal personhood of rivers in South Asia
Dr. Michelle Lim, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University Law School’s Centre for Environmental Law, The Montevideo Programme in a domestic context.
Assoc Professor Trevor Daya-Winterbottom, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean in Te Piringa - Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato.
Dr. Md Abdul Awal Khan, Climate Justice and Human Rights Nexus: Bangladesh Perspective
Assoc Professor Jonathan Liljeblad, Australian National University, Between the Thin and the Thick: Linking Environmental Constitutionalism and Environmental Rule-of-Law
Session 5: Role of Montevideo V to advance EROL in the Middle East and North Africa - Association of Environmental Law Lecturers in MENA (ASSELMU)
Dr. Christina Abi Heida (Lebanon), Environmental Lawyer and adjunct faculty, Lebanese American University, Lebanon “Developing adequate and effective environmental legislation and legal frameworks in the MENA region through the UNEP Montevideo program”
Professor Riyad Fahkri (Morocco), Professor at University of Hassan II Settat, Morocco & Legal Counsel to the Minister of Health. “Strengthening the effective implementation of environmental law in the MENA region: opportunities from the UNEP Montevideo program.”
Dr. Mahmoud Hussein (United Arab Emirates), Founding Partner, Mahmood Hussain Law Firm, Business Bay, Dubai, UAE “Access to environmental justice in the MENA region: the important roles of arbitration and how the United Nations Montevideo program can assist with integrating arbitration as a timely, efficient, and important tool for effective environmental dispute resolution in the MENA region.”
Dr. Aziza Moneer (Egypt), Senior Lecturer, Suez Canal University, Egypt. “Public participation and empowerment: Enhancing capacity-building and awareness for increased effectiveness of environmental law in the MENA region through the UNEP Montevideo program”
Session 6: Role of Environmental Law to address the climate crisis and promote sustainable development - IUCN WCEL
Round Table Discussion:
What is the role of environmental lawyers in addressing the climate crisis and promoting sustainable development?
What are the main legal tools for addressing the climate crisis AND promoting sustainable development?
Prof. Francesco Sindico, Law School, Strathclyde University
Claudia De Windt, Founding Partner and CEO, IIJS
Stephen Minas, Associate Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law
Sarah Mead, Legal Associate at the Urgenda Foundation's Climate Litigation Network
Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University.
Dr. Fatima Hosein, Mahmood Hussain Advocates and Legal Consultancy (MHLF)
Ayman Cherkaoui, Director of the Hassan II International Center for Environmental Training, IUCN WCEL Deputy Chair
Session 7: Environmental defenders supporting Environmental Rule of Law - UNEP Nairobi
Ms. Angela Kariuki, UNEP Law Division.
Ms. Dina Lupin Townsend, Director of the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment and Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdon.
Ms. Lisa Chamberlain, Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Fund in South Africa
Ms. Christine Nkonge, Executive Director at Katiba Institute
Ms. Soo Young Hwang, Legal officer, UNEP
Ms. Romchat Wachirarattanakornkul, National Human Rights Officer on Climate change and Human Rights, UN Human Rights Regional Office for South-East Asia
Session 8: Partnerships to advance environmental law
Association of Environmental Law Lecturers in African Universities (ASSELLAU) + African Judicial Training Network on Environmental Law (AJENEL) + Network of Montevideo Programme National Focal Points
Mr. Robert Wabunoha, UNEP
Prof. Collins Odote Association of Environmental Law Lecturers in African Universities (ASSELLAU)
Mr. Ayman Cherkaoui, Director of the Hassan II International Center for Environmental Training, IUCN WCEL Deputy Chair
Dr. Yacouba Savadogo, Advisor to the Minister, Burkina Faso & Coordinator RAFJE
Prof. Emmanuel Kasimbasi, Chair, IUCN WCEL Biodiversity SG
Dr. Gibrilla Kamara, Sierra Leone, National Focal point of Montevideo Program
Ms. Zainab Rachdi, African Green Universities and Youth Education Network Coordinator, Hassan II International Center for Environmental Training
Kokougan Messiga, President of the Youth Task Force for Climate in Africa (French)
Session 9: Transboundary environmental governance in Europe - UNEP Europe
Marianna Bolshakova, Regional Coordinator for Law and Governance, UNEP
Sofie Flensborg, OIC, Outreach and Projects Unit, CITES Secretariat
Jerzy Jendroska, Professor, Opole University, Poland
Owen McIntyre, Professor, School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland
Vadim Ni, Chair, EcoForum, Kazakhstan
Nancy Isarin, Founder, AmbienDura
Session 10: Role of Networks to advance environmental law under Montevideo V
Jay Pendergrass, Environmental Law Institute
Lee Paddock, INECE
Chochoe Devaporihartakula, IGES
Matthew Baird, Director, ARIEL
Session 11: How the legacy of the Rio Declaration impacts the new principles of environmental law - UNEP LAC, Global Judicial Institute on the Environment (GJIE)
Ms. Andrea Brusco, Regional Coordinator of Environmental Governance, Office for Latin America and the Caribbean for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Mr. Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin, Judge of the National High Court of Brazil (STJ) and President of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment
Mr. Justice Winston Anderson, Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice
Mr. Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti, Judge of Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina
Ms. Lina Muñoz Ávila, Environmental Law expert, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Mr. Mariano Castro, Environmental Law expert, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Ms. Kate Wilson, Member of the Steering Committee of the Montevideo Programme
Ms. Maria Catalina Pedrozo, Regional Consultant, UNEP
Ms. Vania Olmos, UNEP Mayor Groups for Children and Youth
Ms. Lorena Terrazas, UNEP Mayor Groups and Civil Society, NGO Red Pazinde
Session 12: Environmental constitutionalism in Latin America, addressing both the recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and the rights of nature - UNEP LAC, Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS)
Mr. Michael Hantke-Domas, Environmental Law Expert UNEP Regional Consultant and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Universidad San Sebastián, Chile
Ms. Claudia de Windt, Director of the Inter-American Institute for Justice and Sustainability (IIJS)
Ms. Justice Damaris Vargas Vásquez, Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice and Coordinator of the Commission on Institutional Environmental management, Costa Rica
Justice Wendy Martinez, President of the First Chamber DN Labour Court, Dominican Republic
Mr. Nestor Cafferatta, Professor and deputy director of the Environmental Law postgraduate course of the Faculty of Law University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ms. Maria del Pilar Garcia Pachón, Director of the Environmental Law Department of the Universidad del Externado
Ms. Andrea Brusco, Regional Coordinator of Environmental Governance, Office for Latin America and the Caribbean for UNEP
Conclusion: Highlights of 40 years of the Montevideo Programme and what is ahead - UNEP LAC, Centro de Derecho Ambiental de Uruguay/Environmental Law Centre of Uruguay (CDA/FDer-UdelaR)
Ms. Maria Candela Zaffiro Tacchetti, Regional consultant, UNEP
Mr. Marcelo Cousillas, Legal Director of the Ministry of Environment of Uruguay and co-chair of the Montevideo Programme.
Ms. Fiorella Isabel Mendoza Graza, Alliance of Environmental Law Clinics, Peru
Ms. Madeleine Rivoir, Master’s in Environmental Law and member of the Center of Environmental Law (CDA-Uruguay)
Mr. Joshua Prentice, Environmental Law Coordination Group of UNEP MGCY, Trinidad and Tobago
Mr. Arnold Kreilhuber, Deputy Director of Law Division, UNEP
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