Climate Law and Governance Day 2022
Press Release CLGI COP27
Climate Law and Governance Day 2022
On Friday, 11 November, over 1,400 registrants from around the globe joined in Climate Law and Governance Day (CLGD) 2022, which was held online and co-hosted by partners from the University of Cambridge and the Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, together with the International Law Association, the International Bar Association, the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and the African Union Commission on International Law. CLGD 2022 focused on Implementing Climate Commitments through Policy, Law & Practice, with the following four key themes:
1. Operationalising the Paris Agreement;
2. Testing Legal and Governance Tools for High Ambition Implementation;
3. Advancing Climate Resilience and Climate Justice; and
4. Net Zero Legal Frameworks to Enable Climate Neutral Investment and Finance.
CLGD 2022 featured a grand opening, three high-level plenaries and sixteen substantive experts sessions addressing a wide range of pressing climate law and governance challenges and solutions.
Climate Law & Governance Day 2022 took place during UNFCCC COP27 on Friday, 11 November 2022.
Climate Law and Governance Day 2022 built upon a series of special events co-hosted by key partners from the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) during the UNFCCC climate conferences since the 2005 MOP1/COP11 in Montreal, Canada to mobilise the international law and governance community to help implement the UNFCCC and most recently, the Paris Agreement in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals. This global international symposium facilitated meaningful dialogue between COP delegates, observers and stakeholders, also keen students, with an interest in national and international law and governance related to climate change, including government representatives and leaders, leading international and domestic legal practitioners, and renowned legal experts.