Venue: Université catholique de Louvain, Campus Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Boulevard du Jardin botanique, 43 – Brussels, 1000 Belgium

• Morning session: Room P61
• Afternoon session: Room 3100
• Remote

Climate litigation is increasingly mobilised across the world to advance climate action. With the quick multiplication of climate cases, databases appear as key tools in documenting and analysing cases, strategies, and outcomes. These repositories of knowledge have the potential to serve as a foundation for shaping future legal efforts.

In the morning session, this seminar will bring together leading scholars to explore the transformative potential of databases in climate litigation. The discussion will highlight two main climate litigation databases and their contributions to legal and policy advancements: the database on Youth in climate litigation of the University College Cork and the database on Human Rights and Climate litigation of the University of Zürich. It will also dive into the methodologies behind the development of such complex datasets, exploring data collection, and analysis.

During the afternoon session, through the presentation of the upcoming CLAIM project, it will explore how the upcoming database of the project could be designed to center diverse knowledge systems and empower marginalised actors to drive strategic litigation.

This seminar aims to exchange good practices and collect feedback from the experience of key scholars and identify pathways for building an impactful climate litigation database in the frame of the CLAIM project. Join us to contribute to this insightful discussion and help shape the future of climate justice !

Provisional programme

Morning Session – Building and Using Climate Litigation Databases: Methods and Insights

• 10am-10:20am – Welcome coffee
• 10:20-10:30 – Introductive words
• 10:30 – 11:30 – Presentation of climate litigation databases

          The database on Youth in climate litigation
Pr. Aoife Daly and Liesl Müller, Youth Climate Justice Project, School of Law, University College Cork

          The database on Human Rights and Climate Change litigation
Pr. Corina Heri, Professor of human rights and climate change at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

• 11:30 – 12:30 – Discussion
• 12:30 – 13:30 – Lunchbreak

Afternoon Session – Foregrounding marginalised actors through a climate litigation database

• 13:30 – 14:30 – Presentation of the CLAIM Project
• 14:30 – 15:30 – Discussion
• 15:30 – 15:45 – Concluding words

Practical Information

• Morning session: Room P61
• Afternoon session: Room 3100
• Remote connection possible upon request

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