The 2022 Climate Law & Governance Student Essay Competition featured submissions from students across the world, with warmest of congratulations to the laureates:
- Platinum Awards: Christian Gutzwillie (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Mikaella Bodeaux (Utrecht University, Netherlands); Mayssa Mansour (Lebanese University, Lebanon); and Abdel Hamid Shehata Abdelrazek (Cairo University, Egypt) won Platinum for outstanding essays on Net Zero: A vague Concept on the Lookout for Guidance Policies, Regulatory Measures and Structuring Elements for Effective Decarbonization”; Copping Out? A Closer Look at the Phasedown of Unabated Coal Power Under the Glasgow Climate Pact; السبل القانونية لمواجهة أزمة التغير المناخي في ظل تطور التشريعات البي / Legal responses to the climate change crisis, in light of environmental legislative development; هدف حياد الكربون كالتزام دستوري علي الدولة و الشركات / The goal of carbon neutrality as a constitutional obligation on the State and corporations.
- Gold Awards: Rachel Wam (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Jorge Alejandro Carrillo Banuelos (Harvard Law School, USA); Motasem Jendaya (University Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); and Pakinam Alsonbaty & Mahtab Ali Elshenawy (Ain Shams University, Egypt) won Gold for excellent essays on “Crimes Against Nature are Crimes Against Humanity”: The Planet v Bolsonaro in Reframing Climate Change through Litigation; Emergencia climática y derechos humanos: definiendo el alcance de las obligaciones estatales desde la Comisión Interamericana; حقوق الإنسان والعدالة المناخية وفق الاتفاقيات الدولية” / Human rights and climate justice in light of international conventions; “المنازعات والحماية القضائية البيئية في مصر; والإطارات القانونية المقترحة لمواجهة مشكله تغير المناخ / Disputes and environmental judicial protection in Egypt: Proposed legal frameworks to address climate change
- Silver Awards: Kelly Gorman (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) and Kirsten Barratt, Megan Mannion & Koaile Monaheng (University of Cape Town and Rhodes University, South Africa); Joman Rabah Al-Khateeb (University of private Applied sciences, Amman, Jordan) and Areej Olama (Hebron University, Palestine) won Silver for their inspiring essays on Transforming the World’s Food Systems: The Need for a Holistic Approach to Food Waste; Building Beyond Montreal and Basel: How a New “Plastics Treaty” Can Save Our Oceans ; “التغيير المناخي في إطار القانون الدولي و القانون الدولي اإلنساني/ Climate change within the framework of international law and international humanitarian law;”حقوق الانسان و العدالة المناخية / Human rights and climate justice
Bronze Judges Commendations were awarded to:
- Alaa Grada (The Islamic University, Palestine)
- Shaun Chua (National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Singapore)
- Abde Abde (Hebron University, Palestine)
- Rebecca Brimble (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
- Salah Jubair Saddam/Bador Salem (Karbala University, Iraq)
- Putu B. Nugraha (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia)
- Yara Thaer Al Abbadi (Applied Sciences Private University, Jordan)
- Ifeanyi Nwokolo (University of Windsor, Canada)
- Nasser Thabet (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
- Mohab Elhakem (Hewlan University, Egypt)
- Intissar Badr (Lebanese University, Lebanon)