Climate Breakfast Seminar Series Small Islands, Small Gains: Small Island Developing States and the International Negotiations

Small Islands, Small Gains: Small Island Developing States and the International Negotiations

The Centre for International Law and Governance (CILG), the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) of the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and the student association Casus Clima are happy to announce the 12^th Climate Breakfast Seminar with Bryce Rudyk, Adjunct Professor and Director of the International Environmental Law Program, Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law, New York University.

The small island developing states (SIDS) are some of the most vulnerable states to the effects of climate change. Warming, acidifying oceans mean that their economies are adversely effected. Their small land masses limit in-country migration. And rising sea level and more frequent and intense tropical storms may soon make their landmasses uninhabitable. As a result of these effects, SIDS have been at the forefront of the international climate negotiations since 1990–pushing greater ambition by all and finance for small states. But the outcome of Glasgow was disappointing on many levels for the SIDS and it is not clear that future COPs will deliver what the SIDS need.

Bryce Rudyk is Director of the UN Diplomacy Clinic and Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. An expert in international environmental law, climate change, and law of the sea, he teaches at the Law School and has published a number of articles and a book on these topics. As well, for the past decade, he has been the Legal Advisor at the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), the negotiating block for the 39 small island developing Member States of the United Nations on international environmental issues. For AOSIS, he led the negotiations on the Paris Climate Agreement provisions on non-state actors.

The Climate Breakfast Seminar Series was launched in June 2019 as a platform to provide expert insights on crucial contemporary climate change issues.

Time:                 3^rd of June 2022 from 09:00 to 10:00

Venue:               Room 7A.0.16 (Pejsestuen) and online via zoom (link will be provided upon registration)

For registration, please click here.

For further information, please contact Beatriz Martinez Romera: beatriz.martinez.romera@jur.ku.dk