2026

• March 3: Claudia Ituarte-Lima  participated as discussant at “Litigating Ecological Conflicts in Asia: Courts, Remedies and Transnational Accountability”, organised by the Curiae Virides project in collaboration with the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment
• February 25-26: Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated as speaker at the expert meeting convened by the United Nations Human Rights and the Danish Institute for Human Rights on “Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”. Presentation: Earth Jurisprudence: Defenders Shaping Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• February 5: Claudia Ituarte-Lima  participated as speaker at Swedish International Cooperation’s  (Sida) Network on-line event “COP30 in Perspective: Reflections on Climate, Environment, Human Rights and Governance in a Time of Change – what does it mean for Swedish International Climate Action?”
• February: Claudia Ituarte-Lima took part in a conversation with Emily Jones in the Weaving Paths Podcast by the EULAS – Jean Monnet Network Environmental democracy and EU–Latin America cooperation for just green transitions.

2025

• December 16: Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated as speaker to a session on Beyond Belém – Hope and Action for Forests, Climate and Livelihoods, organized by Focali research network in collaboration with SEI, the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI), Trase – Intelligence for Sustainable Trade, and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI).
• December 9-10, Claudia Ituarte-Lima was speaker at the panel “Participatory Rights for the Environment” to the Swedish Forum for Human Rights (MR-dagarna) organized by WWF.
  Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated also as speaker at the Children’s right to a healthy Environment by Save the Children and Save the Children’s Youth League
• November 14,  Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated as speaker at “The Need to recognize environmental human rights defenders in UNFCCC Processes” at an official side-event at UNFCCC-COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Presentation; “Legal Advances, Rising Threats: Why protecting the rights of defenders matter for a Living Earth”.
• November 9,  Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated as speaker at  “Breaking Barriers to Climate Solutions” conference, co-hosted by Lund University and the University of Cambridge.
• October 17, Claudia Ituarte-Lima took part as speaker at the  “Journey with Environmental Defenders- from Personal to Planetary Scales” organized by Focali – Forests, Climate & Livelihoods, RWI and others, at Universum, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• The Defendbio legal clinic hosted by RWI and Sociology of Law Department together organised together with In collaboration with Hållbart Universitet, The Association for Foreign Affairs (UPF), Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) an event on Defending a Living Earth: Transnational action beyond COP30 including a Canadian Parliamentarian and civil society organizations.
• September 17-18, Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated as speaker at the Biodiversa+ Mid-Term Conference in Leiden, in a panel on Nature-based Solutions with Gilles Doignon (European Commission) and Karin Bilo (Orsted), moderated by Marie Touchon (Global Youth Biodiversity Network).
• September 4, Claudia Ituarte-Lima took part in a virtual conversation on the implications of the Advisory Opinion OC-32/25  by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, Alianza de Clinicas Ambientales en Latinoamerica y el Caribe an others.
• August, Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated as speaker on the Training Session on Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the context of the UN Biodiversity, held in Trondheim, Norway organized by CO-OP4CBD, NINA – Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Museum national d’Histoire naturelle
• July 15,  Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated as co-moderator in the Advisory Opinion 32 of 2025: Climate Emergency and Human Rights. What’s Next?, co-organised by GNHRE, Biodiversa+DEFEND-BIO project, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute,  ERC Curiae Virides project (Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel), The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus , Universidad del Rosario, SEVEN – University of Amsterdam and the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI)
• April 9, Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated in Biodiversa+’s kick-off meeting: BiodivNBS, where newly launched projects were presented. Claudia introduced the DEFEND-BIO project and explored synergies with other initiatives. Check out about the meeting and her intervention here. PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodríguez and Senior Lecturer Ana María Vargas Falla also took part, presenting DEFEND-BIO as a pioneering project that bridges knowledge, policy, and practice.