Home » Programme » Official Programme » The Future of Conservation: Transgenerational Approaches to Ethics, Rights and Duties

The Future of Conservation: Transgenerational Approaches to Ethics, Rights and Duties

Why attend
As IUCN looks to the future of conservation, we must explore new frameworks for law and governance that support the powerful voices of nature, future generations, and vulnerable peoples, allowing these often-marginalized sources of wisdom and leadership to help realize global goals of respecting conservation ethics, rights, and responsibilities.
HideDescription
Two decades into the 21st century, a new generation has emerged with a higher expectations and ethics with regard to biodiversity, climate, and environmental harms. They recognize that our conservation crises cannot be separated from our governance crises, and each is due to a crisis of values. Despite the seriousness and urgency of the challenges we face, voices of nature, future generations, women, and vulnerable peoples have often been ignored —and our response has been inaction, slow action, or ineffective action. This Session will be a diverse and intergenerational dialogue to explore new and emerging approaches to law and governance that can better address our shared global crises, building from the ethical roots of the rights of nature movement, to the courage of the youth that are bringing climate change cases in defense of future generations.

Session agenda

Moderator

Mr Antonio BENJAMIN

Justice, High Court of Brazil (STJ),
IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law
Brazil

Opening Remarks
14:00 - 14:05

Dr Emilie GAILLARD

Maître de conférences droit - Sciences Po Rennes,
IUCN WELC, CIDCE, General Coordinator of the Normandy Chair for p
France

Opening Remarks
14:00 - 14:05

Dr Victor TAFUR

Associate Executive Governor & Representative to the United Nations in New York, International Council of Environmental Law; Adjunct Professor, Pace University Haub School of Law, New York, USA,
International Council of Environmental Law & Center for Envir
United States of America


14:05 - 14:45

Mr Nick BRYNER

Associate Professor of Law,
Louisiana State University
United States of America

Roundtable Dialogue: Implementation of Transgenerational Rights and Duties
14:45 - 15:25

Speaker

Prof. Klaus BOSSELMANN

Professor of Law, Director of New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law,
University of Auckland
New Zealand

Transgenerational Ethics
14:20 - 14:30

Dr Emilie GAILLARD

Maître de conférences droit - Sciences Po Rennes,
IUCN WELC, CIDCE, General Coordinator of the Normandy Chair for p
France

Transgenerational Human Rights & Duties
14:30 - 14:40

Prof. Christina VOIGT

Professor,
University of Oslo
Norway

Ethics and Climate Change Law
14:40 - 14:50

  • IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL)
  • Normandy Chair for Peace
  • IUCN World Environmental Law Commission

Photo Gallery

Hosts