Lunch Seminar Series on Climate and Sustainability
In this series researchers, present their latest and ongoing work on climate and sustainability.
The lunch seminars are held from 12.00 to 13.00 all year round. Some seminars are opened to the public and streamed online and some are only used as a test base for ideas and research among scholars.
Are you interested in giving a presentation at the next lunch seminar? Please contact Viktor Weber (viktor.weber@jur.ku.dk).
| # | Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 52 | 16.6.2026 | Irene Antonioli, University of Naples Federico II | The Impact of Climate Change on the International Protection of Human Rights |
| 51 | 1.06.2026 | Viktor Weber, University of Copenhagen | Public Engagement in Renewable Energy Deployment in Denmark |
| 50 | 29.05.2026 | Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, University of Bergen | From Competition to Competitiveness in European Energy & Industrial Policy |
| 49 | 18.05.2026 | Stefania De Angelis, University of Calabria | The Right to Good Air |
| 48 | 23.04.2026 | Luigi Pigna, Sapienza University of Rome | Beyond Plaumann: Statutory and Rights-Based Challenges to EU Climate Commitments |
| 47 | 09.04.2026 | Marianna Hu, European University Institute | Understanding climate-mobility-related adaptation |
| 46 | 06.02.2026 | Teresa Roa Martínez, PhD student, University of Vigo (Spain) | Ensuring public administrations’ accountability: a legal pathway for climate action |
| 45 | 05.02.2026 | Danjelle Midgley, PhD student, University of Cape Town | Climate litigation in South Africa |
| 44 | 05.12.2025 | Emanuela Rassu, PhD student, University of Siena | The Rise of Just Energy Transition Litigation in Europe: Limits and Trends |
| 43 | 07.11.2025 | Ángeles Jiménez García-Carriazo, Research Fellow, University of Cádiz (Spain) | Beneath the Seafloor: The Ambiguous Status of Offshore Freshened Groundwater |
| 42 | 17.09.2025 | Amanda Kron, Doctoral Candidate, Lund University | Human rights and environmental due diligence and the right to a healthy environment |
| 41 | 02.09.2025 | Beatriz Martinez Romera, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen & Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen & Hannah Mosmans, PhD-researcher, Erasmus School of Law. |
Climate Risks in Shipping |
| 40 | 21.08.2025 | Viktor Weber, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen | Waiting for the ship that arrives just in time and the due dispatch obligation |
| 39 | 11.08.2025 | Måns Dunfjäll, PhD student, University of Copenhagen | The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive: from soft-law to hard-law and back again |
| 38 | 06.06.2025 |
Serena Fabbozzo, PhD Fellow, University of Turin |
The application of the EU principle "do no significant harm" (DNSH) in research and innovation financed by European funds |
| 37 | 07.05.2025 | Marat Karatayev, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, School of Law, University of Torino, Italy, and a Research Fellow, Institute for Systems Science, Innovation and Sustainability Research, Karl-Franzens University of Graz. | iENERGY legal and regulatory framework and other dimensions for low-carbon energy transition in resource-rich Caspian Sea region |
| 36 | 24.04.2025 | Tayo Gbemi, Doctoral Researcher, University of Aberdeen, Scotland | Comparative Wind Licensing: Environment, Community, and Regulation |
| 35 | 08.04.2025 | Adam Orford, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Law | Decarbonizing the U.S. Electric Power Sector - Legal Strategies and Current Issues |
| 34 | 21.03.2025 | Tara Olsen, PhD candidate, University of Copenhagen | Plastics not so fantastic? A new legally binding instrument to combat plastic pollution |
| 33 | 31.01.2025 | Emanuele Guarna Assanti, Postdoctoral, University of Calabria (Cosenza, Italy) | Green access to justice and climate change litigation in Italy |
| 32 | 14.01.2025 | Meng Zhang, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen | Governance Innovation or Imagination? Navigating the EU's Leading Role towards a Climate Club of Green Hydrogen in a Polarized World |
| 31 | 06.12.2024 | Dimitrios Tsiatsianis, PhD candidate, European University Institute (EUI), Florence | Opting for he wrong loops: persistent problems of EU waste law in the Circular Economy transition |
| 31 | 02.12.2024 | Professor David Freestone | International law aspects of Sea Level rise – recent developments |
| 30 | 10.09.2024 | Romain Chuffart, Nansen Professor, University of Akureyri | Sea ice geoengineering and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic |
| 29 | 11.06.2024 | Pranav Ganesan, PhD candidate, University of Zurich | The Prevention and Precautionary Principles in Environmental Cases before International Human Rights Adjudicators |
| 28 | 10.05.2024 | Bárbara Torres GarcíaPostdoctoral Researcher University of Santiago de Compostela |
New rights for new times: the right to work less |
| 27 | 30.04.2024 | Arman Sarvarian, Reader University of Surrey |
The International Carbon Crediting Mechanism under the Paris Agreement |
| 26 | 12.04.2024 | Nanna Thit has been working in shipping the last 6 years since she graduated from Copenhagen Business School. Her PhD project is written in the frame of a collaboration between anthropology at Aarhus University and the ferry company DFDS. | Lunch Seminar: Winning slowly: How social and cultural practices are influencing innovation and change processes in connection with the green transition in shipping |
| 25 | 06.03.2024 | Michele is Associate Professor at the Department of Strategy and Innovation of the Copenhagen Business School | Purpose and Positioning: The Deployment of Environmental Narratives for Strategic Gain (in the Container Shipping Industry) |
| 24 | 21.02.2024 | Siff Lund Kjærgaard is currently working at an interdisciplinary project called JUST SOCIETY at the University of Southern Denmark | On thin ice: A gendered study of human rights in relation to climate change in the Arctic |
| 23 | 07.02.2024 | Jan Stockbruegger a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ocean Infrastructure Research Group at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. | Why is the IMO failing to Address Climate Change in Maritime Shipping? Decarbonization as a Market Governance Problem |
| 22 | 29.01.2024 | Eirik Finserås, PhD Candidate at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Law | Transboundary Wake Effects Between Wind Farms in the North Sea – Is More Cooperation Needed? |
| 21 | 12.12.2023 | Filippo Garelli - PhD candidate in Public, Comparative and International Law - Sapienza University of Rome (Department of Political Science) | The Green Climate Fund as a tool for integrating sustainable development and human rights law in the context of climate change actions |
| 20 | 08.11.2023 | Nikolaos Karampatzos, Lawyer, PhD Candidate at School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | The Ocean climate nexus through ITLOS advisory proceedings |
| 19 | 11.10.2023 |
María Carro Pitarch, PhD Candidate in International Law and Lecturer of EU Law, The University of Valencia. |
Marine genetic resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction: can we consider the new regime under the BBNJ Agreement a solution to the existent legal gaps? |
| 18. | 31.08.23 | Elena Cima, Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Geneva | "So What" - Reflections on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change |
| 17. | 29.08.23 | Vonintsoa Rafaly, Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen | The Law of the Sea as an Infrastructure: Rethinking Ocean Governance to Foster Global Justice |
| 16. | 24.03.2023 | Dr Dawoon Jung, Research Fellow Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore | Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage and the Protection of the Marine Environment |
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Snjólaug Árnadóttir, Assistant Professor at Reykjavik University
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| 14. | 03.03.2023 | Luciana Fernandes Coelho; World Maritime University, Malmö |
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| 13. | 27.02.2023 | Barbara Bokor,Bergen University |
Marine Plastic Pollution with a Special Focus on EU Legislation and Policies
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| 12. | 23.02.2023 | Jolein Holtz Ph.D. candidate, Leiden University |
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| 11. | 24.01.2023 | Matteo Fermeglia, Postdoc Hasselt University | |
| 10. | 02.12.2022 | Riccardo Stupazzini, Ph.D. candidate, Sapienza University of Rome | |
| 9. | 14.09.2022 | Christiaan De Beukelaer | |
| 8. | 11.08.2022 | Professor Anne-Michelle Slater (University of Aberdeen) | Marine planning: A passport to the Oceans of the future? |
| 7. | 13.06.2022 | Professor Randall Abate (Monmouth University) | Standing in Global Climate Litigation: Learning from Best Practices |
| 6. | 06.05.2022 | Marie Curie Fellow Justine Bendel (CILG) | Presentation of the project 'Implementation Issues in Global Environmental Law: The Case of Forests (INTERFOR)' |
| 5. | 31.03.2022 | Postdoc Alessandro Monti (CILG) | Urban Cycling Mobility in the European Green Deal |
| 4. | 28.03.2022 | Prof. Daniel C. Esty (Yale Law School, Yale University) | Securing Environmental Rights in the United States |
| 3. | 11.03.2022 | Marie Curie Fellow Justine Bendel (CILG) | Remedies in International Environmental and Climate Disputes |
| 2. | 23.02.2022 | Associate Professor Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (Faculty of Law, University of Bergen) | Decommissioning of Offshore Energy Structures and Sustainability |
| 1. | 20.01.2022 | Linnéa Nordlander Postdoc (CILG) |
Litigating climate change: the potential of Sámi human rights claims |
Researchers
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| Dahl, Anya Kristina Cheng | PhD Fellow |
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| Ebbersmeyer, Ana Stella | Postdoc |
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| Gianino, Sebastiano | PhD Fellow |
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| Martinez Romera, Beatriz | Head of Centre, Associate Professor |
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| Poulsen, Pernille Holten | PhD Student |
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| Weber, Viktor | Assistant Professor |
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Contact
Beatriz Martinez Romera
Associate Professor on Environmental and Climate Change Law
Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance, Faculty of Law
Phone: +45 29700410
beatriz.martinez.romera@jur.ku.dk