CLASS will take part in the project focused on establishing a network of European research centres dealing with climate law

Our Centre participated in the preparation of the project submitted by Hasselt University as project coordinator to the Research Foundation – Flanders FWO. The project called Climate Change Law in Europe succeeded and we will be part of an international consortium for the next 5 years. Other participating institutions are Ghent University, University of Antwerp, University of Copenhagen, University of Eastern Finland, University of Strathclyde Law School and the Institute of State and Law of the CAS through the CLASS research unit. The aim of the project is to lay the basis for a European network of research centres dealing with climate law. Such a network does not yet exist (unlike environmental law). The scope of the project will look more closely at four content pillars - a just transition to a low-carbon economy, the relationship between human rights and climate change, biodiversity and climate change, and innovation in governance in relation to climate change. The CLASS Centre is to co-ordinate the 'human rights' pillar. The project will organise workshops and conferences, produce joint publications, organise postdoctoral exchanges and visits to participating institutions, and organise a summer school on climate law.