Annual Lecture 2024
Intersectionality and the human rights implications of climate change
On 30 January 2025, the Human Rights Law Centre was delighted to have our Annual Lecture delivered by Professor Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change and Professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde.
Prior to the Lecture, Professor Morgera met with students at the University of Nottingham for an event entitled, 'Exploring a career in human rights and the environment: a student conversation with Elisa Morgera', in which she discussed career pathways in human rights and the environment, drawing from her own experience in the field.
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About the Speaker
Elisa Morgera is the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights. She is Professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK) and Adjunct Professor in International and European Union Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Previously, she worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Development Programme in the Eastern Caribbean. In various capacities, she has advised governments and civil society in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific.
Professor Morgera has published extensively on human rights and the environment, the human right to science, as well as the human rights of small-scale fishers, Indigenous Peoples, and children, at the climate-biodiversity and climate-ocean nexus. She has also published on business responsibility to respect human rights, as well as on the international principle and standards of equity among and within States, based on international environmental and human rights law. From 2019 to 2024, Ms Morgera directed the One Ocean Hub, a Global North/South research collaboration on human rights and the ocean, which connected natural and social scientists, legal experts, artists, human rights holders and defenders, to support fair, inclusive and transformative decision-making.
You can view a recording of the event here: