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T20 Taskforce on Sustainable Climate Action and Inclusive Just Energy Transitions

Professor Megan Bowman launched her co-authored policy report at Climate Week NYC 2024. Run in partnership with the UN General Assembly, Climate Week NYC brings together heads of government, key policymakers, academics, climate leaders, and representatives from the tech industry and beyond to drive climate action forward.

Together with multi-disciplinary colleagues from LSE, Columbia University, Aviva Investors, and the World Bank, Megan has co-written the report 'Taking the lead on climate action and sustainable development' which sets out key principles and is accompanied by a 'Handbook to strategic national transition planning' to help guide countries’ implementation. The report extends current thinking regarding corporate-level transition planning to advocate for national-level transition planning that can integrate and coordinate a whole-of-economy response to the climate and sustainability crises.

The next phase of the project will focus on piloting and implementation.

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Innovative King's Law of Property module updated to embed sustainability at its core

To help drive understanding of sustainability issues within legal scholarship at King’s, the core undergraduate module Law of Property has been redesigned to include diverse aspects of sustainability including climate change and homelessness.

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Climate in the Curricula

The Centre for Climate Law and Governance convened an innovative workshop on behalf of The Dickson Poon School of Law and King’s Academy, which focused on integrating Education for Sustainability (EfS) in the law curricula, and the challenges and opportunities this presents.

Amongst the first of its kind for law schools, the workshop brought together key multidisciplinary stakeholders from King’s and beyond to discuss the complexity of sustainability challenges, and the leadership role universities can play in addressing climate and planetary crises.

This roundtable forms part of a much wider piece of work on this area, which aligns with King’s ongoing commitment to integrating sustainability at an institutional level.

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The Quiet Enchanting

‘The Quiet Enchanting’, created by design studio Superflux and presented in collaboration with King’s Culture, took inspiration from conversations with King’s climate and sustainability researchers. Find out what Professor Megan Bowman had to say about the project at the launch.

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Climate Law and litigation

Find out more about our activity on Climate Law and litigation

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Climate Law and finance

Read about our initiatives around Climate Law and finance.

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King's Supervisory Excellence Award Winners 2023

In November 2023, King's hosted the Supervisory Excellence Awards. From 200 nominations, Professor Megan Bowman was awarded a KCL Supervisory Excellence Award.

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COP26: we got this

COP26 in Glasgow was set to be the most importance climate conference in a generation.

This podcast sees hosts Dr Megan Bowman, Director of the Centre for Climate Law & Governance, and Dr Will Grant, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University (ANU), bringing together international experts to discuss the challenges society faces and the opportunity for radical action against the climate crisis.

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What Lawyers can do about climate change

Want to know more about what the legal profession can do to tackle climate change? Listen to the podcast and download the briefing paper that we created.

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What lawyers can do about climate change

Environmental justice in the anthropocene

Published in November 2019, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene is a special edition of the King’s Law Journal compiled by the Centre for Climate Law & Governance. The special edition has contributions from legal practitioners, professors, Judges, students and artists from across the globe. It contains a mixture of substantive articles and shorter analysis pieces looking at a range of topics such as regulating chemical pollution, music for a warming planet, extinction rebellion activism, and adjudicating climate change,

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UCL-KCL Doctoral Environmental Law Symposium

On 19 May 2023, King’s hosted the sixth UCL-KCL Doctoral Environmental Law Symposium. Continuing the tradition of collaboration between UCL and KCL doctoral candidates in environmental law, Mara Wendebourg (KCL) and Kenta Tsuda (UCL) organised the conference together.

Dr Emily Barritt, founded the first symposium and delivered the introductory remarks on the value of academic friendships, setting the tone for the day. Twenty six early career researchers from various universities in the UK, Europe and abroad participated in the symposium, sharing their research and providing an engaged audience.

The conference explored various critical themes of environmental law including re-examining environmental institutions, environmental law and courts, rethinking categories, questioning assumptions, the law of the sea and climate change governance.