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CLIMA co-organized the 2025 Sino–Danish Colloquium on Global Climate Governance and Multilateralism

From 25–30 November 2025, the Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) at the University of Copenhagen led an interdisciplinary delegation of scholars in law, anthropology and climate science from Denmark, US, New Zealand, and Iceland to China for the 2025 Sino–Danish Colloquium on Global Climate Governance and Multilateralism in Wuhan as well as the welcome event in Beijing hosted by ICDK and the Danish Embassy.

13th EELF Conference 2026 - Call for Abstracts

13th European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) Conference from 26–28 August 2026 – Call for Abstracts, submissions due by 10 April 2026.

Stefania De Angelis

Stefania is an Italian PhD student at the University of Calabria. her research project focuses on air pollution, effects and legal consequences of the responsibility of private individuals and the State for the protection of the fundamental right to health.

Luigi Pigna

Luigi Pigna is a PhD candidate in Public, Comparative and International Law at Sapienza University of Rome.

Call for Abstracts: XVIII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability

The XVII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy & Sustainability on 16 April 2026 invites students and early-career researchers to present their work and receive feedback.

Danjelle Midgley

Danjelle is an environmental lawyer and PhD researcher specialising in climate justice litigation in South Africa.

Teresa Roa Martínez

Teresa Roa Martínez is a predoctoral researcher (July 2024–present) at the Universidade de Vigo in Spain. Her doctoral research examines the liability of public administrations for harms arising from climate change.

EUFJE Conference 2025 held at the Faculty of Law

CLIMA - Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance at the Faculty of Law hosted the 2025 Annual Conference of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE).

CLIMA to Host the 13th European Environmental Law Forum Conference (EELF) in Copenhagen 2026

CLIMA will host the 13th European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) Conference from 26 to 28 August 2026.

Sebastiano Gianino has received the Francesco Berlingieri Essay Prize 2025

The article “Liability in the Age of Autonomous Vessels: Challenges and Opportunities in International, EU and National Maritime Law” by Sebastiano Gianino has been awarded the Francesco Berlingieri Essay Prize 2025.

Emanuela Rassu

Emanuela Rassu is a PhD candidate in Law and Management of Sustainability at the University of Siena, where her research focuses on the multilevel governance of a “just” energy transition.

Beatriz Martinez Romera appointed as a member of the Danish Climate and Energy Law Association

During professor Ole Hansen’s stay as visiting scholar in Bologna, Beatriz Martinez Romera has been appointed as a member of the Danish Climate and Energy Law Association

CLIMA researcher Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer awarded Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

Dr. Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer has received a Carlsberg Foundation Fellowship for her Arctic cruise tourism law-science project, EMBARC.

Tshifhiwa Bernard Magoro

Bernard is a LLM student from the North Sea Energy Law Program under the supervision of Beatriz Martinez Romera.

Benedetta Virginia Freddi

Benedetta Virginia Freddi, a law Master’s student at the University of Trento, researches how EU case law influences national rules on environmental liability, focusing on the precautionary principle.

Call for Abstracts: XVII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability

The XVII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy & Sustainability on 23 October 2025 invites students and early-career researchers to present their work and receive feedback.

Marat Karatayev

Dr. Marat Karatayev is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow researching energy transitions, climate change, and sustainability, with a focus on policy, innovation, and the water-energy-food nexus.

CLIMA Researcher Meng Zhang Awarded the Prestigious EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in its 2024 Call

Dr. Meng Zhang has received the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship for his project on green trade between the EU and China.

EXPRESS2 Workshop: Crafting a New European Social Contract Together

The EXPRESS2 project hosts an inaugural workshop to engage civil society and EU policymakers in shaping a democratic, inclusive, and sustainable European Social Contract.

Tayo Elizabeth Gbemi

Tayo Gbemi researches environmental and participatory governance in wind energy licensing across Africa and Europe.

Climate Law Journal

Beatriz Martinez Romera, CLIMA's Head of Centre, is the new Editor-in-Chief of Climate Law, a peer-reviewed journal covering climate change law and its interaction with other legal fields.

Aarne Puisto

Aarne Puisto is writing a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of legal remedies under Finnish public procurement rules at the University of Lapland under the supervision of Professor Kirsi-Maria Halonen.

New researcher at CLIMA - Alberto Barrio

Dr. Alberto Barrio is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the EXPRESS2 project, where he will explore the connections between climate change and the social contract, focusing on legal and institutional solutions for a fair and sustainable transition.

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Technology Special Edition

CLIMA's seminar on April 10, 2025, at the University of Copenhagen offers students and junior researchers a chance to present their work on climate, energy, and sustainability.

Adam Orford

Adam D. Orford teaches at the University of Georgia, specializing in environmental law and decarbonization, and leads Georgia’s National Zoning Atlas work.

Serena Fabbozzo

Serena Fabbozzo is a PhD candidate at the University of Turin, researching the EU’s "Do No Significant Harm" principle and industrial symbiosis.

Jacques Hartmann

Jacques Hartmann holds a PhD from Cambridge, has taught international law, and worked as a Legal Officer at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Andrea Tronci

Andrea Tronci is a PhD fellow in Legal Sciences at the University of Cagliari. The doctoral dissertation investigates the role of administrative discretion in the new Italian public contracts code (d. lgs. 36/2023).

Emanuele Guarna Assanti

Emanuele Guarna Assanti is a postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Law at the University of Calabria in Italy.

Romain Chuffart

Romain Chuffart is the Nansen Professor in Arctic Studies (2024 and 2025) at the University of Akureyri in Iceland where he specializes in the rights of Indigenous peoples, international human rights law, international environmental law, and the law of the sea as applied to the Arctic.

New researcher at CLIMA - Meng Zhang

Dr. Meng Zhang is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the RIGHydro project, focused on promoting green hydrogen deployment through regulatory innovation to support the green transition in Denmark, the EU, and beyond.

New EU Grant on Green Hydrogen Transport Transition in the North Sea Region

CLIMA´s project is funded by Interreg Europe. The project aims to enhance and accelerate hydrogen development, especially in the transport sector, across the North Sea Region.

Ingi Poulsen

Ingi is an Icelandic attorney with over 15 years of experience in litigation, focusing on environmental law and human rights law.

Dan Bodansky

Daniel M. Bodansky is a preeminent authority on global climate change whose teaching and research focus on international environmental law and public international law. He teaches courses in international law and sustainability and is a key player in the College of Law’s new Program on Law and Sustainability.

De Grønne Udbudsmorgener

Udbudsretlig eventserie om mulighederne for at inddrage grønne hensyn i offentlige kontrakter.

Baine Kerr

Baine Kerr, a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, researches the legal responsibilities to prevent and control climate pollution caused by international shipping under international law.

Joel Ong Jie Hao

Joel Ong is a researcher at NUS Centre for International Law. Joel specialises in Ocean law Conducting research on issues of Ocean Law and Policy.

Pranav Ganesan

Pranav Ganesan is a research assistant at the University of Zurich, working on the "Climate Change and Remedies" project, which explores how human rights law can address systemic human rights violations caused by global climate change.

New members of CLIMA

Johan Nikolaj Lausen

Regime Interactions in Marine Conservation Beyond National Jurisdiction

Alessandro Galli

Alessandro Galli, an LLM candidate at the University of Milan, researches the role of State aid in supporting environmental protection, renewable energy development, and climate change.

Call for Abstracts – InterAct Conference International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Oceans Special Edition

Three new projects for CILG researchers at the Crown Princess Mary Centre

Five new projects have been selected this year by the Crown Princess Mary Centre. CILG researchers are part of three out of five of these projects.

Launch of Future Arctic Law and Governance (FALG) Network

The Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) of UiT Arctic University of Norway and the Centre for International Law and Governance (CILG) are launching a the Future Arctic Law and Governance (FALG) network.

New Innovation Fund Project

Associate Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera is part of the DART project, co-financed by the Innovation Fund, which aims to develop a model for citizen engagement in Denmark's renewable energy transition.

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Arctic Special Edition