Summer School "Democracy and Climate Justice" (1-6 luglio 2024)
Summer School "Democracy and Climate Justice" (1-6 luglio 2024), organizzata nell'ambito del progetto "Climate Justice Living lab" finanziato dal Programma europeo Erasmus+, con la collaborazione dei Corsi di Dottorato in Diritti umani, Pluralismi giuridici, Studi di genere e Transizione Ecologica e del Master in Diritto e tecnica della transizione ecologica.
Closes Summer School "Democracy and Climate Justice.
Starting next academic year at the Department of Law a course dedicated to climate justice. From the territory of the Madonie Mountains to the city of Pune, India: important synergies for environmental and climate justice will also arise from Unipa's Summer School on Climate Justice.
It closed on Saturday, July 6, the Summer School "Democracy and Climate Justice"; directed by Prof. Nicola Gullo and promoted by DiGi, Department of Law, University of Palermo in collaboration with CSTE - Unipa's Center for Sustainability and Ecological Transition, under the direction of Prof. Maurizio Cellura. More than 30 experts and 70 guests took turns for the six days of training dedicated to climate justice by the University of Palermo. Nearly 50 hours of intensive training, attended by about 100 learners, during which professors from national and international universities, lawyers and jurists with expertise in environmental and climate law addressed different aspects of the neuralgic relationship between law and environmental protection, between policy and sustainability, and between fundamental rights protection and climate impacts.
University of Palermo Chancellor Massimo Midiri stressed the importance of the topic addressed and the need to keep alive the Palermo University's cultural and scientific commitment to climate effects and the relevance of climate litigation.
The summer school represents the first step in making the University of Palermo an academic vanguard on the topic of climate justice at the European level. For the next academic year, in fact, the Unipa Department of Law will launch and pilot a Teaching Module entirely dedicated to climate justice, under the direction of Prof. Gullo. This is an important novelty at the educational level and one of the first courses on the subject promoted at the national level, carried out as part of the European project “Climate Justice Living Lab”, of which Unipa's DiGi is the leader and which will also see similar initiatives in the partner universities of Terragona, Spain, and Mariupol, Ukraine, in collaboration with the association A Sud.
Collaborations and synergies between universities, researchers and jurists will germinate from the Summer School. Among them is the design of a memorandum of understanding between the University of Palermo and Symbiosis Law School in Pune, India, under the direction of Professor Shashikala Gurpur, through which student and researcher mobility will be fostered and joint projects on the topics of law, environment and climate promoted, according to the director's instructions Professor Armando Plaia.