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A briefing on cllimate change and human rights which is part of the programme of events for the Fleet Street Quarter Climate Festival.
A lecture and panel discussion on Environment & Human Rights: Insights from the Aarhus Convention. The lecture will be given by Professor Áine Ryall, Chair of the UNECE Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, and will be followed by a Q&A with an esteemed panel which includes Professor Maria Lee and FTB Barrister Mark O’Brien O’Reilly.
This afternoon case law update will be given by Andrew Fraser-Urquhart KC and Kate Olley.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
Inspector Partington has granted planning permission for a 23 MW solar farm on 55ha of land outside Wakefield (see Decision Letter here).
In a detailed decision the High Court has, on the papers, refused permission to apply for judicial review of the decision of East Herts DC to grant outline planning permission for 10,000 homes across 7 new Villages.