New edition of the JHRE

By Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto # As the preferred ‘green’ financial instrument to fund the green transition, Green Bonds (GB) have become leaders of the market, with S&P Global forecasting a 1$ trillion issuance for 2023 alone. Nonetheless, the green bond market continues to face criticism about greenwashing, lack of a common green definition for projects, transparency, and metrics to define what…

CONCEPT NOTE  Webinar Series on Advisory Opinions on Climate Change Background & Context  Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are the canaries in the coalmine of the climate crisis and have become the champions of climate justice in the international arena. Over 2023 and 2024, the cause célèbre of climate change has exploded into the lexicon…

Litigation concerning climate change mitigation and adaptation increasingly invokes human rights. The databases curated by the Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment  show a rising tide of rights-based climate change cases all over the world, ‘pushing the boundaries’ of human rights law…