Workshop as part of the Public Climate School (University of Hamburg)
2025-05-20
From 20 to 22 May 2025, the Interest Group 'Climate Law in an International Context' (CLIC) at the University of Hamburg's Faculty of Law organised a Public Climate School in Hamburg, with the kind support of the University, the Europakolleg Hamburg, and the Universidad de Chile. The event featured a variety of formats, including workshops, lectures and film screenings, with the aim of raising awareness of climate justice issues and encouraging discourse with a broader audience.
As part of this project, Joachim Herz doctoral programme members Stephanie de Sousa Vieira and Saumya Raval offered a workshop entitled 'Justice Divided? States, Corporations and Climate Justice Between the Global North and South', addressing questions of climate justice and responsibility for climate change.
They focused on the unequal relationship between the Global North and South with regard to climate issues. This is evident in the fact that countries in the Global South are disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change despite having contributed relatively little to it. In contrast, the Global North, which has been the main source of greenhouse gases for the past 200 years, and its companies have experienced comparatively few negative consequences from the climate change they have caused. The workshop focused on this unequal distribution of the burden and how this and the associated responsibility can be legally addressed.
