Climate Justice: Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Dimensions
Hans Sigrist Symposium 2025
Venue
Display map on Google MapsThe Hans Sigrist Symposium 2025 is dedicated to examining how diverse demands for justice (individual, intragenerational, and interspecies) can be meaningfully integrated into law, specifically as foundational principles for climate law, and through litigation. By exploring equitable legal frameworks for adapting to and mitigating climate change, the symposium will highlight selected aspects of climate science, engage with evolving concepts of climate justice, and draw on compelling ethical arguments to shape a more just climate future.
This year's Hans Sigrist Symposium 2025 is dedicated to examining how these diverse demands for justice can be meaningfully integrated into law, specifically as foundational principles for climate law, and through litigation. By exploring equitable legal frameworks for adapting to and mitigating climate change, the symposium will highlight selected aspects of climate science, engage with evolving concepts of climate justice, and draw on compelling ethical arguments to shape a more just climate future.
The Symposium is initiated and sponsored by the Hans Sigrist Foundation.
Invited keynote speakers
- Charlotte Blattner, University of Lausanne, CH
- Simon Caney, University of Warwick, UK
- Erich Fischer, ETH Zurich, CH
- Joyeeta Gupta, University of Amsterdam, NL
- Corina Heri, Tilburg University, NL
- Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, CH
- Roda Verheyen, Rechtsanwälte Günther, Hamburg, D
- Christina Voigt, University of Oslo, N
- Thom Wetzer, University of Oxford, UK
Venue and registration
The 1-day symposium will take place at UniS, Schanzenecksstrasse 1, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Deadline for registration: 15 November 2025.
Registration fee: CHF 30.- includes coffee break, vegetarian lunch and apéro (free of charge for OCCR Members).