Triple-I Blog | Climate Resilience and Legal System Abuse Take Center Stage In Miami – Go Health Pro

Triple-I Blog | Climate Resilience and Legal System Abuse Take Center Stage In Miami – Go Health Pro

Triple-I’s Joint Industry Forum this week in Miami brought together subject-matter experts from across insurance, academia, government, and the nonprofit space to discuss climate resilience, legal system abuse, and – most important – what is being done and must continue to be done to ensure insurance availability and affordability during this period of evolving perils … Read more

What’s Behind New York Fires? Climate Change, Land Use and History – Go Health Pro

What’s Behind New York Fires? Climate Change, Land Use and History – Go Health Pro

Wildfires that are raging across New York and New Jersey highlight a new threat to one of the world’s most affluent regions. Climate change is regarded by scientists as the pre-eminent factor driving long-term changes in weather, and the New York region is experiencing a severe drought — the Big Apple experienced its driest October … Read more

Multiple Climate Disasters Trigger First-Ever Red Cross Disaster Insurance Pay-Out – Go Health Pro

Multiple Climate Disasters Trigger First-Ever Red Cross Disaster Insurance Pay-Out – Go Health Pro

The world was hit by so many floods and landslides in 2024 that it triggered the aid sector’s first multi-disaster insurance pay-out, the Red Cross told Reuters, signaling both the scale of the problem and the need for new financing solutions. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said such … Read more

CfP Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Climate Change and Migration Webinar; EHRAC Animated Film; Business and Human Rights Workshop; AI Knut Ipsen Lecture – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

CfP Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Climate Change and Migration Webinar; EHRAC Animated Film; Business and Human Rights Workshop; AI Knut Ipsen Lecture – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

1. Call for Papers: Netherlands Yearbook of International Law. The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law is inviting submissions for Volume 55 – ‘The manifold forms of contemporary international legal scholarship’. The volume editors invite contributions that address the interplay between substance and form in contemporary modes of international legal work, for example the recording of podcasts, the use of X or blogposts – which may in turn be juxtaposed with more ‘traditional’ outputs such as books or articles. The full call for papers can be found here. Authors may submit an abstract of no more than 400 words by 25 November 2024. Authors of selected abstracts will be informed by 8 December and will then be invited to send a first full draft of no more than 10,000 words including footnotes by 24 March 2025. All emails and files should be sent to nyil {at} asser(.)nl.

2. ICON-S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration Webinar on The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union. ICON-S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration are hosting a webinar “The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union: Balancing Climate Mobility, Sovereignty, and Cultural Preservation” The event will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 10am London/11am CET/9pm Sydney/11pm Wellington and offer a discussion examining the world’s first bilateral agreement on climate mobility. This webinar will explore the Falepili Union’s implications for international law, cultural preservation, and Pacific geopolitics. The event will be held via Zoom. Register here.

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What to Hope For? Redistribution in the Climate Crisis – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

CfP Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Climate Change and Migration Webinar; EHRAC Animated Film; Business and Human Rights Workshop; AI Knut Ipsen Lecture – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

The struggle against climate change is, fundamentally, also a struggle for justice. For one, climate law has been a focal point for articulating redistributive demands — ranging from calls for additional climate financing via demands for technology transfer, all the way to reparations and what is called ‘loss and damage’. For another, the objective of … Read more