The Climate Accountability Crisis: Human Rights Lessons from Nepal will explore the intersection of climate change and South Asia through legal\, human rights\, and health per spectives\, with a case study on Nepal and Tibet. We will explore the follo wing\, multi-field and interdisciplinary questions: How does the cl imate crisis affect fundamental human rights and vulnerable communities in Global South States? What can Nepal and Tibet’s avalanches and flooding tea ch us about climate justice and the unequal distribution of climate impacts ? How can these States’ experiences inform more effective legal\, policy\, and public health responses to the climate crisis?
We will seek support from the Harvard Mittal Institute\, HLS Environmental Law Soci ety\, SALSA\, APALSA\, the Harvard Salata Institute\, and the Systemic Just ice Project. We will get catering from Himalayan Kitchen\, a local Nepalese restaurant.
We have secured the following panelists/moderators:
< p>Eugene Richardson\, a Harvard Medical School professor who will discuss h is research on climate change’s effects on local community health and life outcomes in Nepal through a Mittal Institute grant.Aminta Ossom\, HL S Senior Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law\, who will speak to how st ates and corporations can be held accountable for this issue.
Ioannis Kalpouzos\, HLS Visiting Professor\, who will share lessons from state acc ountability and international climate justice in other contexts.
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