24 March 2023

14 April 2023: ‘Governance in International Environmental Law’.

10.00 Registration of participants and introductory greetings

ANNA MARIA FELLEGARA, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Law, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Piacenza and Cremona campus

MARCO ALLENA, President of the Council of the Master’s Degree Course in Law – Double Degree in Law and Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Piacenza campus

PIETRO FRANZINA, Director of the Institute of International Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milan Branch

GIANFRANCO TAMBURELLI, Coordinator of the SIDI Interest Group on Environment and Sustainable Development (DASS), First Researcher, ISGI-CNR

10.15 Keynote Speech

TULLIO TREVES, Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Università degli Studi di Milano, former judge of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea

11.00 I Session: The actors of environmental governance. Chair: Marco Gestri, Università of Modena e Reggio Emilia

GIANFRANCO NUCERA, Università di Rome – La Sapienza Environmental governance at the United Nations

FRANCESCA ROMANIN JACUR, Università di Brescia

The contribution of COPs to the development of international environmental law

FRANCESCA IPPOLITO, Università of Cagliari

Environmental protection under the lens of human rights treaty bodies

CHRISTINE BAKKER, British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa

Cities as actors in climate governance

MAURA MARCHEGIANI, Università per Stranieri di Perugia

The representation of indigenous peoples’ interests in environmental decision-making processes SIMONE VEZZANI, University of Perugia The transnational peasant movement

12.30 Debate

13.15 Break for lunch – buffet lunch

14.30 II Session: The instruments of environmental governance Chair: Mariangela La Manna, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

ELENA FASOLI, Università di Trento Compliance mechanisms: an overview

PIA ACCONCI, Università di Teramo

The One Health approach and the consideration of the links between the environment, animal welfare and human health

LUCA LIONELLO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore The EU Green Deal

IRINI PAPANICOLOPULU, SOAS University of London

Maritime spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management: new tools to protect the marine environment

FIAMMETTA BORGIA, Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ The last dimension of soft law: sustainability in outer space

SUSANNA QUADRI, Università di Napoli Parthenope

Transfer of financial resources and environmental protection: the Loss and Damage Fund

16.00 Debate

 

16.30 Closing round table: The future of environmental governance: challenges and perspectives

Moderator: Laura Pineschi, Università di Parma

Participants: Paolo Fois; Professor Emeritus, Università di Sassari (in remote mode), Marco Gestri, Saverio Di Benedetto (Università del Salento), Mariangela La Manna

17.30 Refreshments