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Do corporations have legal obligations to limit their adverse impacts on the Earth's climate? Drawing on existing international law, human rights law, tort law, private law and environmental law, Jaap Spier provides a reasoned answer to this question that can guide corporations and judges.
Jaap Spier is former Advocate-General in the Supreme Court of The Netherlands, founder and honorary President of the European Group on Tort Law, and a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale.
Introduced and chaired by Liad Neem, Israeli teacher and activist on climate and graduate student in Canada, this presentation and discussion occurred at the annual Yale Global Justice Conference, on 13 November 2020.
Opinions and statements expressed by event moderators and participants are their own personal views and do not represent the views of the university.
Do corporations have legal obligations to limit their adverse impacts on the Earth's climate? Drawing on existing international law, human rights law, tort law, private law and environmental law, Jaap Spier provides a reasoned answer to this question that can guide corporations and judges.
Jaap Spier is former Advocate-General in the Supreme Court of The Netherlands, founder and honorary President of the European Group on Tort Law, and a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale.
Introduced and chaired by Liad Neem, Israeli teacher and activist on climate and graduate student in Canada, this presentation and discussion occurred at the annual Yale Global Justice Conference, on 13 November 2020.
Opinions and statements expressed by event moderators and participants are their own personal views and do not represent the views of the university.
