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Stockholm Conference on
Environmental
Law and Justice
6-9 September 2006
General Programme
(Sessions, Panels and Workshops)
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speech.
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WEDNESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
8.00-9.30 Registration at Aula Magna
9.30-10.30 Welcome, Jonas Ebbesson (Stockholm Univ.)
Richard Falk (Univ.
of California, Santa
Barbara, USA): Justice in the Second Cycle of Ecological Urgency
10.30-11.00 Coffee
SESSION I: CONCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
1 The Notion of Justice in Environmental
Law
11.00-12.30. Moderator: Jonas Ebbesson
•
William Twining (University
College London, Great Britain):
Law, Justice, and Globalization: Some Reflections
• Dinah Shelton (George Washington Univ.,
Washington DC, USA):
Justice and Equity in
International Environmental Law
•
Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT,
Cambridge, USA):
Rights-talk versus Justice-Talk
in Environmental Governance (Cancelled)
• Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
2 Environmental Justice, State
Sovereignty and State Borders
14.00-16.00. Moderator: Said Mahmoudi
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Phoebe Okowa (Queen
Mary Univ., London, Great Britain): Environmental
Justice in Situations of Armed Conflict
• André Nollkaemper (Univ.
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands):
Environmental
Justice and Sovereignty
• Jonas Ebbesson (Stockholm
Univ., Sweden):
Piercing the State Veil
in Pursuit of Environmental Justice?
• Discussion
16.00-16.30 Coffee
SESSION II: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LEGAL PROCESSES
3 Participatory and Procedural Rights in
Environmental Matters
16.30-18.30. Moderator: Hans Christian Bugge
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Malgosia Fitzmaurice
(Queen Mary Univ., London, Great Britain) :
Environmental Justice through International Complaints
Procedures?: A Comparison between the Aarhus Convention and the NAAEC
• Jona Razzaque (Univ. of West England, Bristol,
Great Britain):
Participatory
Rights in Natural Resource Managament: the Role of Communities in South Asia.
• Qun Du (Wuhan Univ., China):
Challenges for Environmental Justice and
Public Participation in China
• Discussion
18.30-20.30 Welcome reception
THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
SESSION II: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LEGAL PROCESSES (CONTINUED)
4 The Judiciary and the Environment
9.00-10.00. Moderator: Jonas Ebbesson
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Diego Garcia Sayan
(Inter-American
Human Rights Court): Access to Human Rights Courts; a Means for Environmental Justice?
• Ludwig Krämer (Bremen
University, Germany) :
Environmental Justice through the
European Court of Justice: Grandeur et Misère
10.00-10.30 Coffee
4 The Judiciary and the Environment
(continued)
10.30-12.00. Moderator:
Jonas Ebbesson
• Stephen Stec (REC, Szentendre,
Hungary):
Environmental Justice through Courts
in Countries in Economic Transition
• Jan Darpö (Uppsala University, Sweden):
Environmental Justice through
Environmental Courts?
• Discussion
12.00-13.30 Lunch
SESSION III: PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
Workshops 1, 2 and 3
13.30-15.15
Workshop
1: Environmental Justice, Individual Rights and Decision-making
Workshop
2: Justice in International Environmental Law – I
Workshop
3: Justice in the Exploitation of Natural Resources
15.15-15.45 Coffee
Workshops 4 and 5
15.45-17.30
Workshop
4: Justice, Trade and Corporate Activities
Workshop
5: Justice in International Environmental Law – II
17.30 Departure for boat trip and dinner
FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
SESSION IV: CROSS-CUTTING APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
5 The North-South Tension in Global
Environmental Law-making
9.00-10.00. Moderator: Ludwig Krämer
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Karin Mickelson (Univ.
of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada): Competing Narratives of Justice in North-South Environmental
Relations?
• Bharat Desai (Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi):
Environmental Justice in
International Law-making Processes
10.00-10.30 Coffee
5 The North-South Tension in Global
Environmental Law-making (continued)
10.30-11.30. Moderator: Ludwig Krämer
• Bo Kjellén (Stockholm
Environmental Institute, Sweden):
Justice in Global Environmental
Negotiations: the Case of Desertification
• Discussion
6 Environmental Justice, Trade and
Corporate Activities
11.30-12.30. Moderator: Phoebe Okowa
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Nicolas de Sadeleer
(Brussels, Belgium):
Environmental Justice in Multilateral Trade Regimes
• Hans Christian Bugge (Oslo University, Norway):
Environmental Justice
and the Polluter Pays Principle
12.30-14.00 Lunch
6 Environmental Justice, Trade and
Corporate Activities (continued)
14.00-15.00. Moderator:
Phoebe Okowa
• Priscilla Schwartz (Queen Mary
Univ., London, Great Britain):
Corporate
Activities and Environmental Justice: Perspectives on Sierra Leone's
Mining
• Discussion
15.00-15.30 Coffee
7 Environmental Justice and Global
Concerns: the Case of Climate Change
15.30-17.00. Moderator: Bo Kjellén
• Jutta Brunnée (Univ.
of Toronto, Canada):
International Environmental
Law, Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice
• Malou Larsson (Stockholm
Univ., Sweden):
Trade Emission
Rights: From Environmental Justice and Trade Justice to Climate Justice
• Discussion
17.15 Departure for reception in the Stockholm City Hall
SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
SESSION V: CASES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
8 UNEP Global Judges Programme
9.00-9.30. Moderator: Jan Darpö
•
Barbara Ruis (UNEP,
Nairobi): UNEP Global Judges Programme: Enhancing Environmental
Governance and the Rule of Law through the Judiciary
9 Environmental Justice and Access to Natural
Resources
9.30-10.30. Moderator: Jutta Brunnée
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Patricia Kameri-Mbote
(Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya):
Law, Gender and Environmental Resources: Excavating Women's Rights in
Environmental Law
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Philippe Cullet (SOAS,
London, Great Britain): Environmental Justice and Genetic Resources
10.30-11.00 Coffee
9 Environmental Justice and Access to Natural
Resources (continued)
11.00-12.00. Moderator:
Jutta Brunnée
• Ellen Hey (Erasmus
Univ., Rotterdam, The Netherlands):
Justice in International Water Law
• Discussion
CLOSURE OF THE CONFERENCE
12.00-12.30 Closure and Farewell
12.30 Lunch
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