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SUMMARY:A ‘Just Transition’ or ‘Just Transitioning: Energy Transition, Historical Oil Pollution and Search for Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Professor Engobo Emeseh from University of Bradford’s School of Law\nWednesday, April 9, 1:30-2:45, HNES 138\nEngobo Emeseh is Professor of Law and Head of the School of Law, University of Bradford. Professor Emeseh’s work centres on the regulation and governance of extractive industry and climate justice, particularly in the African context. She served on the Expert Working Group of the Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Oil and Environment Commission, which released its final report in May 2023. Professor Emeseh serves on various academic editorial boards, including as the founding Managing Editor of the Nigeria Yearbook of International Law. Among her many contributions, Professor Emeseh was a member of the international team that produced a Draft Declaration on Climate Change and Human Rights (on behalf of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and Environment) to feed into the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris 2015.\nCo-sponsored by The International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution and a Just Transition in the Niger Delta and the following units at York University: Environmental and Urban Change; the Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas; the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights.\nRefreshments will be served.\n
URL:https://events.yorku.ca/events/a-just-transition-or-just-transitioning-energy-transition-historical-oil-pollution-and-search-for-justice/
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CATEGORIES:Earth Month,Equity, Diversity & Inclusion,Equity, People & Culture,Faculty Affairs,Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change,Graduate Program in Environmental Studies,Graduate Program in Geography,International,Research & Innovation
LOCATION:HNES 138
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