Climate Conscious Lawyers are working to transform legal education to ensure the next generation of legal professionals have the relevant expertise and competencies to deliver legal services and promote climate justice to a wide range of clients in a climate transformed world.
Climate change related risks, impacts, responses and disputes already are transforming all areas of legal knowledge and practice.
We need to appropriately support and resource legal professionals to navigate this changing legal landscape and to advance climate change mitigation and adaption.
Read more about why legal education needs to become more climate conscious.
We are working to transform legal education by:
We have currated resources to support climate mainstreaming including:
Our team includes over 40 experienced legal academics and legal professionals passionate about transforming legal pedagogy.
Image 1: “Steel industry in Benxi, China”, Andreas Habich, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Image 2: School Strike for Climate, used with permission
Image 3: Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash
Image 4: Surfers protest against oil drilling application, Gold Coast, Lachlan Gardiner / Climate Visuals, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Ocean Visuals – Climate Outreach