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27

Nov

Defending a Living Earth: Transnational Action Beyond COP30

27 November 2025 16:30 to 18:00 | Seminar
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How can we use law, policy, and transnational advocacy against global ecological destruction? In this round-table talk, 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. This online 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 using legal tools and advocacy strategies to protect ecosystems under threat.

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

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 Alanís-Ortega, President of the Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA)
  • Amazon Watch (tbc)

Moderators

  • Ana Maria Vargas, Lund University
  • Claudia Ituarte Lima, Raoul Wallenberg Institute

Date: November 27
Time: 16.30-18.00 CET UTC+1
Location: Online (Zoom) and Ostrom in LUCSUS, Biskopsgatan 5, Lund.
Fika will be served from 16:00. After the discussion there will be a mingle.

Register here: https://forms.gle/YCRz5w9qDYC3yEyo7

The round-table event is organised by the Defend-Bio Legal Clinic, hosted by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University, in collaboration with Hållbart Universitet, The Association for Foreign Affairs (UPF), The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS). This event is part of the research projects: EHRD, Defend Bio, and Amazon Adapt.

About the event

Location:

Online and in the lecture hall Ostrom, 3rd floor, Josephson building, Biskopsgatan 5, Lund

Contact:

ana_maria [dot] vargas_falla [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se