Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability

When: Friday, July 21, 2023, 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Where: Room 313, Third Floor, School of Law Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS

The event is jointly organised by Queen Mary and the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, in collaboration with the UArctic Law Thematic Network and the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education.

Programme

9.45 Coffee

10 am Introduction

10.15 am-11.15 am TBC

Panel 1: Climate change litigation

• Dr Agnes Rydberg: Climate Change Litigation in General, University of Sheffield;
• Dr Leena Heinämäki: Climate change and the rights of Indigenous (including Sámi) peoples: a progress or stagnation? Senior Visiting Researcher, the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland;

11.15 am-12.15 pm

Panel 2: Right to a Clean Environment: Human and Nature

• Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice: General Legal Framework of Human Right to Clean Environment and that of Nature; Intergenerational Equity, QMUL;
• Mohammad Golam Sarwar: The role of indigenous and local values in implementing the rights of Nature framework: Lessons from the Global South, SOAS

12.15pm-13.15

Panel 3: The Age of the Anthropocene

• Dr Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa: Governing the Anthropocene Through the Rights of Nature: The Uses (and Abuses) of ‘Becoming Indigenous’, QMUL
• Dr Kamrul Hussain: Indigenous cosmovision for Earth-centric governance: deconstructing the normative structure of international law? Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland;

13.15pm-13.35pm

Concluding Comments: Ms Pauline Martini, Queen Mary.

Lunch