Live session: Saturday 24th June 2023, 10.00 – 16.15 (BST)
This session will explore the role that lawyers can play in enabling negotiations, and in particular assist countries that are most vulnerable to climate change seek justice. We will look at developments in Climate Change law, consider how the international treatise may be implemented, and discuss how the demands of developed and developing countries in relation to climate action differs.
Pascale Bird is the acting executive director of Legal Response International (LRI), a London based charity that provides free legal assistance to poor and climate vulnerable developing countries and NGOs at the UN climate negotiations. She has over ten years’ experience working in the climate arena. She is a qualified solicitor and holds an LLM in International Business Law and an MA in Geopolitics, Territory and Security. Before joining LRI, she worked as an Associate and Professional Support Lawyer in the EU and Competition department of Simmons & Simmons. She also volunteered for Oxfam, project managing a book on climate change liability.
Olivia Tattarletti is a legal officer at LRI. She has been involved in the international climate change negotiations for over 7 years. She is a qualified solicitor and holds a Masters in Business Administration. Before joining LRI, she worked at Birnberg Peirce representing bereaved and survivors at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Prior to that, she trained and then worked as an Associate in the Dispute Resolution department at Simmons & Simmons. She also took the A4ID Law and International Development training programme in 2015-2016.
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