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SNU Human Rights Center Conference on “Environmental Sustainability, the Right to a Healthy Environment, and Human Rights”

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The SNU Human Rights Center cordially invites you to a conference on Thursday, January 9, 2025 on the theme of “Environmental Sustainability, the Right to a Healthy Environment and Human Rights”. Please see the program below for details on how to participate.

 

Date & Time: 9 January 2025 (Thursday) 9:30∽17:00

A hybrid format, with both in-person and online options available

English-Korean simultaneous interpretation provided

 

Please register by 7 January (Tuesday), 2025: https://forms.gle/9NQDda51tLBvC5677

 

Seoul National University Human Rights Center

Environmental Sustainability, the Right to a Healthy Environment,

and Human Rights

Thursday, 9 January 2025

Room 206, Building 71-1, Seoul National University, South Korea

 

9:30-9:45 Registration

Moderator Hyo Won Kang, Research Fellow, SNU Human Rights Center

 

9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks

June-Jeong Lee, Director of SNU Human Rights Center

Sun-Jin Yun, Dean of SNU Graduate School of Environmental Studies

 

10:00-12:00 Human Rights and the Environment

Chair Tae-woo Ko, Professor of History, SNU

 

Ecological beings, human beings and human rights

- Kerri Woods, Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Leeds, UK

The right to a healthy environment and climate justice: Challenges and opportunities

- Sumudu Atapattu, Teaching Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School / Executive Director, UW-Madison Human Rights Program, US (Online)

Economic, social and cultural rights, and environmental sustainability

- Michael Windfuhr, Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Deputy Director of the German Institute for Human Rights

The environment and extra-territorial human rights obligations

- Joo-Young Lee, Research Professor, SNU Human Rights Center / Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

 

Discussant: Jiewuh Song, Professor, Political Science and International Relations, SNU

*Floor Discussion

 

13:30-15:15 Climate Change Litigation in East Asia

Chair Hyeyoung Lee, Professor, SNU Graduate School of International Studies

 

Korean youth climate litigation: A rights-based response to a political failure

- Sejong Youn, Program Director/Attorney at Law, Plan 1.5

Overview and challenge of youth climate case in Japan

- Mie Asaoka, Attorney at Law, President of Kiko Network

Overview and challenge of Taiwan’s climate litigation and policy

- Yan-Ting Lin, Former director, Climate Change & Just Transition, Environmental Rights Foundation (ERF), Taiwan

 

Discussant: Jaehong Lee, Professor of Law, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

*Floor Discussion

 

15:30- 17:00 Human Rights and a Just Transition

Chair Joo-Young Lee, Research Professor, SNU Human Rights Center

Post-growth approaches and human rights

- Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School, UK (Online)

State’s human rights obligations in response to climate change and human rights approaches to energy

- Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Associate Professor of Sustainability Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Online)

* Floor Discussion

 

 

The SNU Human Rights Center cordially invites you to a conference on Thursday, January 9, 2025 on the theme of “Environmental Sustainability, the Right to a Healthy Environment and Human Rights”. Please see the program below for details on how to participate.

 

Date & Time: 9 January 2025 (Thursday) 9:30∽17:00

A hybrid format, with both in-person and online options available

English-Korean simultaneous interpretation provided

 

Please register by 7 January (Tuesday), 2025: https://forms.gle/9NQDda51tLBvC5677





 

Seoul National University Human Rights Center

Environmental Sustainability, the Right to a Healthy Environment,

and Human Rights

Thursday, 9 January 2025

Room 206, Building 71-1, Seoul National University, South Korea

 

9:30-9:45 Registration

Moderator Hyo Won Kang, Research Fellow, SNU Human Rights Center

 

9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks

June-Jeong Lee, Director of SNU Human Rights Center

Sun-Jin Yun, Dean of SNU Graduate School of Environmental Studies

 

10:00-12:00 Human Rights and the Environment

Chair Tae-woo Ko, Professor of History, SNU

 

Ecological beings, human beings and human rights

- Kerri Woods, Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Leeds, UK

The right to a healthy environment and climate justice: Challenges and opportunities

- Sumudu Atapattu, Teaching Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School / Executive Director, UW-Madison Human Rights Program, US (Online)

Economic, social and cultural rights, and environmental sustainability

- Michael Windfuhr, Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Deputy Director of the German Institute for Human Rights

The environment and extra-territorial human rights obligations

- Joo-Young Lee, Research Professor, SNU Human Rights Center / Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

 

Discussant: Jiewuh Song, Professor, Political Science and International Relations, SNU

*Floor Discussion

 

13:30-15:15 Climate Change Litigation in East Asia

Chair Hyeyoung Lee, Professor, SNU Graduate School of International Studies

 

Korean youth climate litigation: A rights-based response to a political failure

- Sejong Youn, Program Director/Attorney at Law, Plan 1.5

Overview and challenge of youth climate case in Japan

- Mie Asaoka, Attorney at Law, President of Kiko Network

Overview and challenge of Taiwan’s climate litigation and policy

- Yan-Ting Lin, Former director, Climate Change & Just Transition, Environmental Rights Foundation (ERF), Taiwan

 

Discussant: Jaehong Lee, Professor of Law, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

*Floor Discussion

 

15:30- 17:00 Human Rights and a Just Transition

Chair Joo-Young Lee, Research Professor, SNU Human Rights Center

Post-growth approaches and human rights

- Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School, UK (Online)

State’s human rights obligations in response to climate change and human rights approaches to energy

- Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Associate Professor of Sustainability Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Online)

* Floor Discussion