International Launching Conference of the JusTN0W initiative – An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda for Safer and Fairer Futures. 3rd & 4th of October 2024

The CSDLP and JusTN0W teams are delighted to announce the occurrence of a historic conference - the international launching conference of the JusTN0W initiative. 

We are excited and looking forward to welcome a stellar lineup of speakers who will share their expertise with us. The objective of the event is to invite our existing and new partners to hear about the research agenda for JusTN0W and to identify how we can collaborate within the context of just transitions. Our work ties in with the work programme at the international level, where the Conference of Parties at #COP29 is expected to advance the discussions on elements that are critical for a safer and fairer future within the just transitions framework.

Please join us in this endeavour!

We are looking forward to welcoming and hearing from:

Professor Mike Shipman, H.E. Mr Francois Jackman, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Professor Rowena Maguire, Dr Sven Renner, Madame Secretary Peron Johnson, Professor Jose Enrique Alvarez, Dr Sikander Shah, Ms Danielle Yeow, Dr Øystein Lund, Professor Gordon Blair, Dr Kelly Widdicks, Mr Kishan Khoday, Professor Ibibia Lucky Worika, Ms Norma Alvarez, Professor Karen O’Brien, Yasmin Batliwala MBE, Justice Jawad Hassan, Professor Simone Borghesi, Professor Marie Stenseke, Professor Joeri Rogelj, Professor Scott Barrett, Dr Sandra Batten, Dr Dato' Muhammad Faiz Azmi, Professor Christian Tietje, Professor Colin Bain, Dr Joseph Kobusheshe, Professor Jutta Brunnée, Professor Achinthi Vithanage, Mr Zachary Phillips, H.E. Mr Jukka Siukosaari, Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum, Professor Andy Haines, Dr Friederike Otto, Dr Rupert Stuart-Smith.

The JusTN0W Principal Investigators, Professor Petra Minnerop, Professor Laura Marsiliani, Dr John Bothwell, and Dr Nelly Bencomo, are looking forward to welcoming our esteemed speakers, our new and existing partners, and our respected attendees in Durham.

Please have a look at the conference programme via the following link: 

JusTN0W Conference Programme

For in-person attendance please register by using the link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1025397831517?aff=oddtdtcreator 

For online attendance please register by using the link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1025394852607?aff=oddtdtcreator

For any queries please email csdlp@durham.ac.uk

The conference has three main objectives:

First, to launch and co-create an interdisciplinary research agenda that supports sustainable solutions at the intersection of law, science, economics and computer science, through informing legal and policy frameworks. Second, and in line with JusTN0W’s overarching goals, we want to enhance collaboration and co-creation of sustainability research with partners at a global scale, across academic disciplines, and beyond academia. Our third objective is to analyse the most recent case law from leading domestic courts, international courts, and international tribunals to support governments, legal personnel, and academic colleagues in developing legal arguments for the upcoming hearing before the International Court of Justice, for future cases, and for developing national and international legal frameworks that support sustainable solutions.

The conference consists of three panels and a workshop:

In the first panel, we will address the ‘Conditions of Climate Justice in Just Transitions.’ Climate justice and just transitions are often not discussed together, however, we perceive climate justice as a goal of just transitions. The second panel ‘Equitable, Sustainable Solutions I: AI, Digital Twins, and Environmental Strategies’, builds on the first panel and addresses how AI within a setting of interdisciplinary research can be used to design environmental strategies, using a digital twin and an AI-enabled database. These environmental strategies must aim at equitable and sustainable solutions that materialise conditions of climate justice within just transitions. The third panel on ‘Equitable, Sustainable Solutions II: Multiagent Models and Instrument Analysis’ covers current and potential future instruments that provide economically feasible solutions. It builds on the first panel and uses AI as a tool for modelling, bringing, in addition, economic factors as well as environmental considerations. From our conversation with colleagues working in the world of finance, we understand that the siloed climate consensus must be shared with those who make investment decisions. This requires us to think about solutions that are economically feasible and implement just and fair solutions.

The fourth segment of the conference is a workshop, ‘Interdisciplinarity for Climate Justice in A Post-Advisory Opinion World’, that will delve deeper into the legal standards as they emerge from adjudication and international law, to inform the International Court of Justice advisory opinion. This analysis of the legal obligations of States in the context of climate change is not only relevant for litigation but also for legislation, and therefore, the outcome of the final workshop is informed by the preceding panels, and new legal yardsticks will equally inform the discourse and the research on climate justice and on just transitions to a net zero world.