About the Symposium
The Symposium on Climate Law and Policy is a new platform for global dialogue on climate law and policy. It examines existing climate law (de lege lata) through multiple perspectives, encompassing:
- Security & Law in Climate Context: Analyzing climate law through integrated security dimensions, including human security frameworks, transboundary security cooperation mechanisms, conflict-sensitive climate policies, and multi-level security governance systems.
- Energy Transition & Climate Justice: Examining the interplay of international and national climate laws, human rights, indigenous rights, and access to justice mechanisms within climate governance frameworks.
- Economic & Market Transformation: Exploring legal frameworks for carbon pricing, climate finance, sustainable investment, green taxonomies, and market-based climate action mechanisms.
- Technology & Innovation Governance: Addressing legal frameworks for emerging climate technologies, energy transition, digital solutions, and cross-border technology transfer systems.
- Territorial & Resource Management: Examining legal frameworks for urban planning, natural resource protection, land use regulation, and ecosystem conservation under climate law.
- Socio-Economic Transition Management: Analyzing legal frameworks supporting just transition, corporate responsibility, labor market adaptation, and community engagement in climate action.
This academic forum aims to bridge the gap between theoretical research and practical policy implementation, fostering dialogue between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the field of climate law and policy.
2025 Theme: Climate – Energy – Security Nexus
The inaugural symposium explored the emergent framework of the energy-climate-security nexus, examining the intricate and interdependent relationships between environmental resources, energy systems, climate change, and security dynamics. This triple-node nexus has gained significant importance, particularly considering current geopolitical developments and the increasing securitization of climate and energy policies within the European Union and beyond. The symposium addressed how security has become an essential pillar of climate protection and energy policy, exploring the need for joint, cross-sectoral solutions in our current age of transformation and crisis.
