Roundtable

Climate Change: Pathways to Public Interest Advocacy

Date

Thursday 3 July 2025

Time

16:00 - 17:30 hour

Address

Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague

Room

Auditorium 2.01

As part of the Leiden – Edinburgh Global Law Summer Course, The Hague Global Futures Hub will host a series of roundtable discussions focused on Global Legal Practice and the future of the legal profession in The Hague.

Climate change and environmental protection have been the terrain in which public interest resolution and advocacy have become most visible in contemporary global affairs.

This panel brings together legal practitioners at the forefront of climate change litigation as well as academics working in this area, to create a platform of exchange on questions such: What is the point of strategic litigation in areas of public interest? What are the limits to courts’ decision-making? In which direction should academia work to support the end of securing climate and environmental protection?

Panelist:

 

Louise Fournier, Greenpeace

Helen Duffy, Leiden University

Floris Tan, Climate Litigation Network

Zaky Hubber, Freshwater law consultant

*Participants of the Grotius Summer Schools do not need to register to attend this event. The same applies for staff and students of Leiden University with a valid LU Card.

Register here

Information about all the roundtables can be found below: 

• The Future of Human Rights
• A New Era in International Arbitration?
• Climate Change: Pathways to Public Interest Advocacy

The Hague Global Futures Hub provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and data driven innovation approach to understanding and addressing challenges on the global stage, driven by a commitment to sustainability and social justice in local contexts. The Hub aims to address global complex challenges and to contribute to interdisciplinary, innovative, and future-focused solutions. The Hub builds on existing collaborations of the two universities Leiden and Edinburgh across four interconnected and integrated dimensions of activities:

•  Challenge-based education
• Co-creational research
• Lifelong Learning and professional development
• Global outreach and societal engagement, in cooperation with (international) partners.