POSTPONED - Fair and equitable research partnerships for a sustainable and inclusive ocean governance? The role of international and global law - Elisa Morgera

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The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law presents

Fair and equitable research partnerships for a sustainable and inclusive ocean governance? The role of international and global law

Elisa Morgera, Professor of Global Environmental Law and Co-Director of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance

About the seminar
In 2017 the international community recognized that the ocean is at the centre of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, as we all depend on the ocean for food security, work, livelihoods and culture. The ocean also contributes to maintaining balance on earth through its role in the renewal of freshwater, absorption of over a quarter of global carbon dioxide, and production of half the oxygen we breathe.Yet we are reaching a tipping point for ocean health: the interaction of cumulative pressures on ocean resources are reaching critical levels and governance at all levels is struggling to address competition, interdependencies and tensions across a range of sectors in sustainable, inclusive and transformative ways.

This presentation will reflect on the role of international and global law to contribute to sustainable and inclusive ocean governance and to shape transformative and transdisciplinary ocean research. The reflection is based on the experience of developing and starting to implement the UKRI GCRF One Ocean Hub (2019-2024) - a global collaborative effort to bridge current disconnections in ocean science and policy at different levels with a view to balancing multiple ocean uses with conservation and empowering communities, women and children to inform decisions on the ocean based on multiple values and knowledge systems. While the One Ocean Hub integrates marine and social sciences and arts, the presentation will focus on the extent to which the interface of international biodiversity law and international human rights law has guided the design of inter- and trans-disciplinary research to address actual and potential conflicts across diverse fields of governance as opportunities to develop genuine and transformative partnerships, rather than necessarily requiring avoidance, mitigation or resolution.

About the speaker
Elisa Morgera is Professor of Global Environmental Law and Co-Director of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. She specializes in international, European and comparative environmental law, with a particular focus on the interaction between biodiversity law and human rights (particularly those of indigenous peoples and local communities), equity and sustainability in natural resource development, oceans governance, and corporate accountability. Elisa has also researched the environmental dimensions of the external relations of the European Union (EU).

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This event is free and open to all. No registration necessary.