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Envisioning Our Environmental Future: Webinar on June 3 – Register

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11 May 2022 | Amsterdam, NL – The EPL Editor-in-Chief, Bharat H. Desai, PhD, extends an invitation to join the exclusive webinar "Envisioning Our Environmental Future" to be held on June 3, 2022, in conjunction with the Stockholm+50 conference and World Environment Day. A new journal section – "Road to Stockholm+50 and Beyond" – was launched to seed the ideas to be covered at the conference, written on a variety of topics by global experts. A number of these contributors will join the webinar to discuss the content, which covers climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Register now to take part in this free webinar!

Road to Stockholm+50 and Beyond: EPL special section, book & webinar!

[Author: Carmel McNamara, IOS Press]

Amsterdam, NL – The EPL Editor-in-Chief, Bharat H. Desai, PhD, extends an invitation to join the exclusive webinar "Envisioning Our Environmental Future" to be held on June 3, 2022, in conjunction with the Stockholm+50 conference and World Environment Day. A new journal section – "Road to Stockholm+50 and Beyond" – was launched to seed the ideas to be covered at the conference, written on a variety of topics by global experts. A number of these contributors will join the webinar to discuss the content, which covers climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Register now to take part in this free webinar!

Invited eminent panelists will deliberate on the historic occasion of Stockholm+50 event to envision our environmental future in the coming years. The online event, hosted by IOS Press, will reflect on a series of contributions – curated by EPL’s Editor-in-Chief and published in the journal and in book form – that probes global environmental regulatory approaches and institutional effectiveness, and explores cutting-edge ideational solutions for the current predicament faced for the care and preservation of planet Earth by humankind, 50 years on since the 1972 Stockholm Conference.

 

Background

As it is 50 years since the environment first took center stage, "Stockholm+50" will be an international meeting convened by the United Nations General Assembly to be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 2 & 3 June 2022. Coinciding with this, EPL publishes a special section – Stockholm+50 and Beyond – and limited-edition book with content from experts in advance of UNEP's milestone event in 2022, which commemorates the 50 years since the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.

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Envisioning Our Environmental Future: Webinar

June 3, 2022 at 9:00 AM (EDT) / 03:00 PM (CEST) / 06:30 PM (IST)

The webinar will explore cutting-edge, ideational solutions to our shared triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

 

Program

Welcome:
– Bharat H. Desai (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
– Marten Stavenga (IOS Press, Amsterdam)

Discussion Topic:
Envisioning Our Environmental Future

Speakers:
– Greg Rose, Wollongong University, Australia
– Nicholas A. Robinson, Pace University Law School, USA
– Chris Backes, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
– Oliver Ruppel, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
– Kirk Junker, University of Cologne, Germany
– Yann Aguila, Club des Juristes, France / Victoria Lichet, Global Pact Coalition, USA

Supporters:

EPL 2022 webinar supporters

 

 
Only those people who join on June 3 will be able to participate and submit questions directly to the speakers during the event. Space for this free webinar is limited, so be sure to register without delay. (The recording will be available online afterwards.)

 

We look forward to welcoming you for this important webinar held in conjunction with Stockholm+50 and World Environment Day!

Envisioning Our Environmental Future: What Else?

Discover all about our Road to Stockholm+50 and Beyond content by checking out the EPL special section and the contributions will also appear in a limited-edition book.