Professor Subedi will talk about the extent to which a human rights framework can be used to require states to prevent climate change and mitigate its impact on human life. My focus will be on analysing the obligations of states arising from the universality of human rights and how they relate to climate change and how various principles of international law could be utilised to require both states and business organisations to align their activities towards preventing climate change.

Surya P. Subedi is Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds and a barrister in London. He also is a visiting professor on the international human rights law programme of the University of Oxford. He served as the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia for six years (2009-2015). He also served for five years, starting in 2010, on an advisory group on human rights to the British Foreign Secretary.

About Cafe Economique

It is  a voluntary organization which runs a programme of monthly talks and discussion on topics of social, economic and environmental interest for the general public, aimed at raising awareness. It is based on the same model as Cafe Scientifique which originated in Chapel Allerton.