Continuing own activities during the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-29), that started in Baku, Azerbaijan, ARC’s expert, professor Borys Babin made fruitful communication with participants of 2024 Climate Law and Governance Day.
Such ideas exchange was made by our Associations’ rapporteur on background of Expert panels “Connecting Trade, Investment and Climate Through NDC Updates and Future Trade Foresight” and “Galvanizing Climate Ambition Through Climate Competent Lawyering by Lawyers and Law Associations”.
In the framework of those discussions on issues of climate change challenges professor Babin stressed on the importance of possible usage of the bilateral investment treaties as a legal tool to be implemented in arbitrary disputes for climate litigation, especially in conditions of interstate conflicts.
Also ARC’s expert pointed special attention to correlating the phenomenon of climate lawyers and climate human rights’ defenders, especially in situations where normal justice is absent, like authoritarian regimes, conflict zones and occupied territories in conditions of interstate conflicts, with examples of Russian aggression and occupied Crimea.
