Defending a Living Earth

November 27| Online Round Table. In Person in Lund

How can we use law, policy, and transnational advocacy against global ecological destruction?

Time & Location

📅 Date: November 27
⏱️ Time: 16.30-18.00 CET UTC+1
📍 Location: Online (Zoom) and Ostrom in LUCSUS, Biskopsgatan 5, 223 62 Lund.

About the Event

Environmental defenders and allies reflect on strategies they have used in their work to fight for socio-ecological justice using transnational networks. In a time when environmental harm disregards borders, transnational networks are a core part of the response. Organized by the DEFEND-BIO Legal Clinic, and hosted by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Rättssociologiska institutionen, Lunds Universitet, this roundtable event highlights diverse cases—from coral reef protection and pesticide regulation in Mexico to legal resistance against copper mining in the Colombian Amazon—where defenders, legal clinics, and transnational networks are creatively using legal tools and advocacy strategies to protect ecosystems under threat.

Environmental defenders are at the forefront of developing new and innovative advocacy strategies to challenge destructive practices, influence policy, and build new pathways for ecological justice. Their innovative tools include legal accompaniment, parliamentary advocacy, international solidarity, and digital mobilization.

Speakers:
🔶 Rosa Galvez, Senator of Canada and member of Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future
🔶Margarida Ravara, Environmental Defender Law Center, LU Alumni
🔶Alejandra Ancheita, Executive Director of ProDESC (The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project – Mexico)
🔶Gustavo Alanis-Ortega, President of the Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA)
Moderators: Ana Maria Vargas Falla, PhD (Lund University) and Claudia Ituarte-Lima (Raoul Wallenberg Institute).

In collaboration with Hållbart Universitet, UPF Lund – The Association of Foreign Affairs, The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), and the Formas, ett forskningsråd för hållbar utveckling (FORMAS).

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