Programme
PANEL I - Environmental Rights as Human Rights
14:00-14:15
Opening statements
Sirpa Rautio, Director of the Human Rights Centre
Jukka Viljanen, Professor of Public Law, Tampere University
Young people’s message
14:15-14:30
Keynote: David R. Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment
Climate change, human rights and the role of youth
14:30-15:30
Panel discussion
Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne, Associate Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life, Professor of Law, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
Kari Kuusiniemi, President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland
Bradlie Luisa Ana Martz-Sigala, Climate Reality Leader, The Climate Reality Project & Research Assistant (CCEEL), University of Eastern Finland
Nicole Onnela, Chair of UN Youth of Finland
Questions by students from Tampereen lyseon lukio high school’s Eurooppa-linja
15:30-15:45
Break
PANEL II - International Trends in Climate Change, Courts and Youth Participation
15:45-16:00
Keynote: Dr. Daphina Misiedjan, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Dutch experience (Urgenda case) and the potentials of the ECtHR in environmental cases
16:00-16:50
Panel discussion
Gerry Liston, Legal Officer at Global Legal Action Network
Heta Heiskanen, Secretary-General of the Climate Panel, Ministry of the Environment of Finland
Päivi Hirvelä, Former Judge of the ECtHR, Judge in the Finnish Supreme Court
Milka Sormunen, Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
Ellen Ojala, Climate activist, Climate youth delegate
Questions by students from Tampereen lyseon lukio high school’s Eurooppa-linja