Varieties of Climate Agency with a Special Focus on Climate Litigation - An International Workshop

11. November 2024

Foto: Vanessa Bystry

Professor Aykut took part in the international workshop "Varieties of Climate Agency with a special focus on Climate Litigation" at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. 

Against the background of existing scholarship on climate law and governance which has been attracting an international interdisciplinary research community (Climate Law and Governance Day @COP28), this research focuses on the global opportunity structure for climate change (Aykut, Wiener et al. 2021; Wiener et al. 2023) in order to identify under which conditions climate agents are enabled or constrained to act: what are regulatory and customary conditions of agency in a global context? The research takes account of and follows up from Professor Wiener’s current research on climate litigation and social drivers of climate change which has been conducted at the Hamburg Excellence Cluster CLICCS (Wiener 2022) and on her well-renowned work on norm contestation in international relations (Wiener 2018). The workshop will also benefit from the research done in the CCE on mapping a climate atlas of legal rules and litigation challenges and research on climate change in EU trade law (Gehring et al, 2023). It will have space for graduate researchers from Law, Land Economy, Political Science and Cambridge Zero.

Professor Aykut took part in the panel 2: Climate Litigation as a Social Driver for Deep Decarbonisation I and Panel 3: Climate Litigation as a Social Driver for Deep Decarbonisation II.