On November 14, an expert from our Association, Dr. Borys Babin, took online participation at the 2025 Climate Law and Governance Day convened at the 30th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Belem, Brazil, by the University of Caxias do Sul, Federal University of Para, and the University of Cambridge.
During the event, participants discussed the ways of inspiring and optimizing legal and institutional reform to adopt higher ambition Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement and respond with due diligence to the crucial treaty and customary obligations identified in Advisory Opinions from international courts.
The event brought together experts, lawyers, and policymakers to share knowledge on legal and governance responses to climate change.
Participants stressed the importance of engaging civil society and the legal community, courts, law associations, and others in raising climate ambition and accelerating climate action, enhancing transparency and ensuring accountability, integrating rights-based approaches, advancing loss and damage response, supporting access to climate justice and climate litigation, and addressing climate migration and intergenerational equity.
Professor Babin reminded the event participants about ongoing challenges for the issue of climate change caused by Russian aggression in Ukraine, including the destruction of the dam of Kakhovka HPP by Russian military units, as well as about damage caused by the catastrophe that occurred on December 15, 2024, in the waters of the Black Sea south of the Kerch Strait with the Russian tankers “Volgoneft-212” and “Volgoneft-239.”
