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NO FLY ZONE SPEAKER: Re-Thinking Waste: Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape

THE TIME IS NOW: Canadian and Global Recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment

Climate Accountability Litigation by Governments Against Fossil Fuel Companies: Exploring the Options

No Fly Zone Speaker: "Laws are for the Lawless" - Learning Indigenous Law On and From the Land

No Fly Zone Speaker: Accessing Justice for Animals

No Fly Zone Speaker: The Epic Environmental Litigation of Chevron V. Ecuador: Lessons From The Frontlines

Warrior Lawyer Profile: Roger Cox

Roger Cox is a Dutch lawyer with the Paulussen Advocaten law firm in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is a lecturer in universities, publisher of several journal articles and author of the book Revolution Justified: Why Only the Law Can Save Us Now, which shows how courts and the rule of law can spur change in national governments’ policies on climate change. Apart from being the lawyer behind the Urgenda Foundation v The State of the Netherlands case, he is also founder of the Planet Prosperity Foundation and a renowned personality in the area of sustainable development.

Warrior Lawyer Profile: John Bonine

From early in his legal career, John Bonine demonstrated a strong interest in protecting and implementing environmental rights. He was Associate General Counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before becoming a law professor at the University of Oregon. There he would go on to create the world’s first environmental law clinic in 1978. The Western Environmental Law Clinic (now “Center”) has seen a lot of success, and Bonine has founded (and co-founded) many other organizations since.

No Fly Zone Speaker: The Rights of Nature Movement (Webcast)

CANCELLED: NECESSITY Film Screening

NECESSITY traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America. Front line communities–Native Peoples and communities of color–suffer the most immediate and severe consequences of the climate crisis: impacts on physical and mental health as well as territorial desecration and displacement. Yet with painful histories have come deep insights, forms of resilience and modes of resistance.

Workshop: Protecting the Rights of Nature: Towards a Law for BC

Warrior Lawyer Profile: Maxine Burkett

Fish in the streets, sinking cities, and an octopus in a parking garage – these are all real events that have occurred over the last few years as a result of rising sea levels. Maxine Burkett, Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii, says that these shocking events are not getting enough attention. “Climate change is not the elephant in the room but the octopus in the parking lot,” she said in 2018.