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Warrior Lawyer Profile: Rafael Maldonado
Guatemala emerged from a 36-year civil war in 1996 in which approximately 200,000 people died or were disappeared. Mining activity is immensely controversial in Guatemala, particularly due to its impact on Indigenous communities and the environment that sustains them. Lawyer Pedro Rafael Maldonado Flores has been instrumental in defending both the environment and the defenders protecting the natural world.
Jan 4, 2020 Justin Wiebe
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Warrior Lawyer Profile: Michelle Maloney
In an age of environmental crisis and political inaction, our world needs leaders and warriors. Enter Dr. Michelle Maloney, an Australian lawyer at the forefront of advocating and strategizing towards systemic change within our legal system and broader society.
Dec 30, 2019 Roderick Reynolds
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Warrior Lawyer Profile: Camille Labchuk
"We are expanding rights constantly to [marginalized] groups … and there’s a lot progress left to be made for women, for … racialized communities, for the environment certainly and especially for animals,” Canadian animal rights lawyer Camille Labchuk told Silver Donald Cameron of The Green Interview in 2016. “The situation won’t improve, she said, “without people being extremely vocal, extremely active and trying innovative legal strategies.”
Dec 27, 2019 Marie Turcott
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STOP UnderMining Indigenous Rights
Hear the Xinca Indigenous People of Guatemala and their Canadian supporters speak about the struggle against El Escobal mine, owned by Vancouver-based Pan-American Silver, founded by Ross Beaty.
Nov 12, 2019 Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant
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What is happening at Pan American Silver’s Escobal Mine?
The Centre for Law & the Environment is proud to co-host a special event at the Allard School of Law to spotlight the Xinca indigenous people’s past and ongoing resistance to human rights violations at Pan American Silver‘s Escobal mine in Guatemala, the world’s second-largest silver mine.
Nov 12, 2019 Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant
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Debunking UBC’s dubious legal position on divestment
UBC continues to resist divesting its $1.75 billion (Canadian) endowment from the fossil fuel industry, despite years of pressure from groups including UBC350 and recent encouragement from top UBC officials including President Santa Ono and Board of Governors Chair Michael Korenberg.
Nov 1, 2019 Stepan Wood
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Sign the Zero Emission University pledge and open letter!
Air travel is a big part of most academic researchers’ lives. We fly much more than most other people. Workshops, conferences and research often lead us to travel by air several times a year. Racking up an impressive list of conference presentations, public lectures and international research travel is seen by many researchers, university administrators and peer evaluators as crucial for receipt of tenure, promotion, grants, awards and merit pay. Yet a growing number of academics recognize that our jet-setting culture is inconsistent with facing humanity’s climate change emergency.
Oct 11, 2019 Stepan Wood
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CLE Speaker Series: A Climate for Change: Governing Knowledge for Innovation under the Paris Agreement and the Global Climate Funds
Join us on November 13 when CLE visiting scholar Dr. Katherine Owens (Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Law School) explores the connection between innovation, knowledge and climate governance. Remaining within the temperature goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change will require profound and complex transformations in our energy, land, urban and infrastructure, transport and industrial systems.
Oct 3, 2019 Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant
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CLE Speaker Series: The Promise and Problems of Border Carbon Adjustments: Findings from California and Europe
Border carbon adjustments, also known as carbon tariffs, would support carbon pricing policy by protecting domestic carbon-constrained producers against competition from greenhouse gas-intensive imports and by preventing leakage of greenhouse gas emissions to jurisdictions with less demanding carbon regulation. But governments are loath to use them. Join us on Tuesday, October 15 for the next event in the CLE Speaker Series, when sustainability expert and Allard PhD candidate Stefan Pauer explains why.
Oct 2, 2019 Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant
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Marching for Climate Accountability
The Centre for Law & the Environment will be marching in tomorrow’s Global Climate Strike in Vancouver, demanding accountability for climate crimes.
Sep 26, 2019 Stepan Wood
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CLE Speaker Series: Legal Environment for Artificial Owl: AI in Energy and Environment
Join us for a talk by Japan-based energy, climate and environmental law expert Dr. Maciej M. Sokołowski PhD, Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University, Tokyo and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. Dr. Sokołowski will speak on artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of energy and environmental law. The talk is part of the Centre for Law & Environment’s Speaker Series.
Sep 19, 2019 Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant
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Welcome the CLE’s first visitor of 2019-20, Maciej Sokołowski
We are very pleased to welcome the Centre’s first visitor of the 2019-20 academic year next week. Dr. Maciej M. Sokołowski, a Japan-based energy law expert, will be with us for a whirlwind visit of just a few days. He gave a fascinating public talk on artificial intelligence (AI) in the environmental and energy fields on Tuesday, September 24.
Sep 19, 2019 Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant
