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Are you interested in researching the legal and governance challenges posed by climate change? Do you have ideas for how legal instruments and institutional reforms can contribute to addressing climate change challenges? Then enter the 2018 Global Climate Law and Governance Essay Competition!
TOPICS: In line with the themes of Climate Law and Governance Day 2018, submissions addressing one of the following guiding questions will be considered:
1. How can legal tools and multi-level instruments be leveraged to implement the Paris Agreement and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)?
2. What are the challenges and opportunities in operationalising the Paris Agreement?
3. What is the role of law and governance in advancing climate resilience and climate justice?
4. What legal frameworks will enable climate finance, engage the private sector, and promote climate-friendly trade?
ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Students from least developed countries are especially encouraged to apply.
REQUIREMENTS: Essays should be 2,000 to 4,000 words in length (excluding footnotes) and should use a consistent legal citation style. Submissions can be made in English, French or Spanish.
PRIZES: Winners will be announced in an awards ceremony alongside COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The best entries will receive a cash prize between $300-100 CAD, be published by CISDL and invited to submit their essays to the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law for publication and have the opportunity to participate in the climate moot held during CLGD 2018 if they so desire.
SUBMISSION: Send entries and a short biography to climate-essay@cisdl.org by 1 October 2018.
This annual essay competition is brought together by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Law University of Nairobi, the CR2 at the University of Chile, the Ateneo School of Governance in Manila, University of South Pacific and others, and is supported by the partners of Climate Law and Governance Day (CLGD) 2018.