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Register Now: Online Seminar on Children/Youth and the Right to a Healthy Environment

11 Nov 2022

The right to a healthy environment is increasingly recognised at international level. Youth climate activists/advocates have been key to progressing action against climate change. This online event will be held to coincide with COP27 at which children and youth will meet to contribute to the decision-making process around the UN Climate Change Convention.

Speakers at this UCC event will reflect on the significance of the right to a healthy environment for children and youth, particularly from the perspective of the UN Convention on the rights of the child.

Speakers Include:

• Alicia O'Sullivan, Law Student/Climate Justice Advocate, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, 'COP and the experience of children and youth advocates'. 
• Dina Lupin, Director of Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment/Lecturer, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Southampton, 'What is the right to a healthy environment'.
• Maria Antonia Tigre, Global Climate Litigation fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, 'Climate litigation and the Global South'.
• Aoife Nolan, Professor, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Nottingham, 'Children's Rights and Future Generations' Rights - Ensuring Mutual Support'.
• Alana Lancaster, Lecturer, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of West Indies, Barbados, 'Children's rights and the ocean'.
• Aoife Daly, Lecturer, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, 'Child/youth climate activism: A Postpaternalist Era for Children's Rights?'.

Date and Time: Friday 11 November, 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

Register via Eventbrite: 

Enquiries to Dr Aoife Daly aoife.daly@ucc.ie

Speaker info: Speakers Children Youth and the Right to a Healthy Environment '22