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The 10th Edition of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability will take place in a hybrid form on the 9th of February 2023 at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and on Zoom. This seminar follows the success of the last nine editions, which have been taking place at the University of Copenhagen since June 2019.

Human rights have been increasingly used to address the environmental crises as evidenced through the proliferation of climate litigation and the recent adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution on the right to a healthy environment.

State practice is a tool for treaty interpretation evidencing the progressive development of international law and the contemporary understanding of a treaty by its Member States.