2º Conferencia Internacional: La encrucijada del derecho ambiental internacional. Paradojas de la transición energética y desigualdades globales

El 3 y 4 de septiembre se celebrará en Barcelona la 2ª Conferencia internacional: La encrucijada del derecho ambiental internacional. Paradojas de la transición energética y desigualdades globales. Una cita para abordar los complejos desafíos que plantea la transición energética, especialmente en lo que respecta a sus impactos ambientales y sociales.

A pesar del creciente reconocimiento de estos problemas, muchas políticas estatales no abordan de manera adecuada ni priorizan los impactos sociales y ambientales de los proyectos de energía renovable y la extracción de minerales. Esta omisión refleja una tendencia más amplia de los gobiernos a priorizar el crecimiento económico y la independencia energética por encima de las consecuencias en los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente. La falta de evaluaciones ambientales y sociales exhaustivas, junto con marcos regulatorios débiles, ha permitido que los actores empresariales exploten los recursos naturales sin la debida consideración por las comunidades afectadas.

Programa

3 September 

09:00 – 09:15 Registration

09:15 – 09:30 Welcome and opening remarks

09:30 – 10:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE – Critical minerals for the energy transition: a complex challenge for international law and EU law
Xavier Fernández Pons, Associate Professor of Public International Law, Universitat de Barcelona

10:15 – 11: 30 PANEL 1 – Legal tensions in the energy transition. 
Chair: Daniel Iglesias, University of La Laguna

• Just energy transition or just another transition? (Re)examining the role of expropriation for climate justice.
  Tina Kotzé, Research and Didactics Lead for Law & Ethics at Boston City Campus / Research Associate at the University of Pretoria

• The role of states in balancing renewable energy development and biodiversity protection: the case of wind energy permitting in Europe and ASEAN
  Mei-Line Le Goueff-Duong, qualified lawyer and member of the Paris Bar Association and lecturer at the University Sorbonne Nord

• How Clean is ‘Clean’ Energy? The EU’s Green Transition and Environmental Justice in the Case of Serbia’s Potential Lithium Mining
  Darjana Macanovic, Legal advisor at Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute – RERI, Belgrade, Serbia

• The Paradox of Clean Energy: Regulatory Asymmetries and the Uneven Geographies of Transition.
  Albert Cucurull, European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 12:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE – Transnational Legal Ordering of the Energy Transitions: Fragmentation, Contestation, and the Global South
Paolo Davide Farah, full professor, West Virginia University

12:45 – 13:45 PANEL 2 – Environmental crimes and environmental justice enforcement
Chair: Gastón Medici, University of Barcelona

• Hidden Crime in the Energy Transition: Labor Exploitation in the Green Energy Industry and the Means of Combating It
  Associate Professor, National University of Technology and Science Politehnica Bucharest

• Victims, Violence and the Void: Rethinking ICC Complementarity for Environmental Crimes in Energy Conflicts
  Harkikan Sehgal, Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India

• Yasuni and Ogoni: the long road towards environmental justice
  Carmen Rita Gomeza de Larrea, Junior associate at the Energy, Infrastructure and Public Law Department at Baker McKenzie

13:45 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:00 PANEL 3 – Trade, investment, and the energy transition. 
Chair: Miguel Ángel Elizalde, Open University of Catalonia

• Exploitation of resources in the Global South: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources Vs Obligation to Freely Trade, what should prevail?
  Daria Boklan, Professor of Law deputy-head of the International Law department of National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

• Analyzing the Effectiveness of Fossil Fuel Subsidies Prohibitions in the Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability in Light of the International Investment Law Regime
  Ted Gleason, Associate Professor of Law, Grenoble Ecole de Management

• Adapting investment treaty protection to support the energy transition
  Nicolò Andreotti, PhD candidate in International Law, University of Padua

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:15 PANEL 4 – Setting minimum thresholds for energy access. 
Chair: Briana Bombana, Open University of Catalonia

• The concept of dignity thresholds: minimum core obligations of socioeconomic rights in a context of eco-social crisis.
  Ana García Juanatey, CEI International Affairs/Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya

• A explicit connection between access to energy and the satisfaction of socioeconomic rights: The Case of Cañada Real in Madrid
  Rafael Cid Rico, Gentium

20:30 Social dinner at El Menjador de la Beckett (Optional; the participation requires pre-confirmation through the registration link, and prepayment).

4 September 

09:00 – 09:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE – Regulating the Global Risks of Deep Seabed Mining: Climate Change, Ecosystems, and the Norwegian Arctic Case
Sandra Cassotta, Associate Professor in International, Environmental and Energy Law, Aalborg Universitet

09:45 – 10:45 PANEL 5 – Lithium, land, and law: energy transitions and indigenous rights.
Chair: Mar Campins Eritja, University of Barcelona

• Legal Complexities of Chinese Lithium Investment in the Lithium Triangle: Environmental Governance, Labor Law, and Indigenous Rights.
  Monika Prusinowska, Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Science, and Public International Law and International Relations, University of Barcelona

• Exploring Bolivia’s Lithium ambition through an expanded energy justice lens.
  Romain Mauger, Iberian Centre for Research in Energy Storage (CIIAE), Cáceres, Spain / Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla, INSTA – Serveis Jurídics Ambientales, Spain, University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain and North-West University (NWU), South Africa

• From Conflict to Collaboration: Reforming Dispute Resolution in Energy Transition Investment Projects to Respect Indigenous Land Rights in Africa and Asia.
  Irene Kariuki, Law Society of Kenya & the University of Nairobi

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:30 PANEL 6 – Corporate responsibility and due diligence in the transition supply chain. 
Chair: Mariona Cardona Vallès, Open University of Catalonia

• Revisiting the Resource Due Diligence in Democratic Republic of Congo in a time of crashing war
  Zeina Moneer, Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden

• Human rights, (in)justice and governance in an age of “transition”: reflections emerging from documentation in lithium extraction sites and along the global production chain of electric vehicles
  Sacha Feierabend, PhD researcher, International Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and Senior researcher, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / José Aylwin, Observatorio Ciudadano Chile

• The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: Implementing Just Transitions Internationally Through Global Supply Chains?
  Inés Racionero Gómez, Pre-doctoral Fellow (FPI) in Public International Law in Universitat de Barcelona

• The role of data and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in advancing a just minerals transition in the Global South
  Marco Angelo S. Zaplan, University of the Philippines Population Institute, Gov Data Initiative, and the Asian Development Bank

12:30 – 13:30 PANEL 7 – Justice in the energy transition through litigation and human rights frameworks
Chair: Bettina Steible, Open University of Catalonia

• Rethinking Remedies: A Latin American Perspective on Just Transition Litigation
  Flávia Do Amaral Vieira, Research Fellow Tilburg University / Bruna Singh, PhD Candidate Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

• Justice in the Energy Transition: To Be or Not to Be? The Shaping Role of (Human Rights) Courts
  Ludovica d’Apote, PhD LEES – International and Public Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development, University of Milan

• The Aarhus Convention
  Karlos Castilla, Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya

13:30 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:15 PANEL 8 – Rethinking just transition: Theoretical frameworks for environmental justice. 
Chair: Laura Presicce, Open University of Catalonia

• Just transition in international environmental law: potentials, risks, and normative suggestions
  Begüm Acar, Harvard Law School PSVF Kaufman Fellow at Doğa Derneği (BirdLife Turkey)

• Environmental Justice and Regulatory Inequality: A Governance Perspective
  Deniece M. Aiken, legal scholar and researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonian Maritime Academy

• Green Extraction, Blue Destruction: Why Deep Seabed Mining Demands an Earth System Law Response
  Işık Girgiç, PhD Researcher, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University

• To Drill or Not to Drill Is Partially the Question: Facilitating Energy Justice for Global South Oil and Gas Countries Through International Law
  Chitzi Ogbumgbada, Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK

16:15 – 16:30 CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS

Comité científico

• MARIONA CARDONA-VALLÈS, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• BETTINA STEIBLE, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• DANIEL IGLESIAS MÁRQUEZ, Universidad de La Laguna
• MAR CAMPINS ERITJA, Universitat de Barcelona
• ANTONI PIGRAU SOLÉ, Universitat Rovira i Virgili – Centre d’Estudis de Dret Ambiental de Tarragona (CEDAT)
• PAOLO DAVIDE FARAH, West Virginia University & gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK
• ANA GARCIA JUANATEY, CEI International Affairs/Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya

Instituciones organizadoras

• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Universidad de La Laguna
• Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya
• Centre d’Estudis de Dret Ambiental de Tarragona
• ESIL Interest Group on the European & International Rule of Law
• ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law
• gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development