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23 June 2009: 1/2 day conference 9.30am – 1pm, London School of Economics

THE CASE FOR A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF PLANETARY RIGHTS

Can human rights survive without planetary rights? Global governance in the 21st Century

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PROGRAMME:

09.30 Registration: Shaw Library, Main Building, 5th Floor, Houghton Street

09.45 Chair Introduction DR VEERLE HEYVAERT Department of Environmental Law, LSE

10.00 Keynote Speaker SIR CRISPIN TICKELL Former British Ambassador to the UN, environmentalist and academic: A United Nations World Environment Organisation: the building blocks of the new world?

10.30 Speaker CORMAC CULLINAN Author of Wild Law and Founder of EnAct International: Principles of Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence: governance for a sustainable world

11.10 Refreshments

11.40 Performance Wild Lawyer ELIZABETH RIVERS will perform The Lotus from the Chinese-Tibetan martial art of Chi Kung

11.50 Speaker POLLY HIGGINS Barrister, Founder of Trees Have Rights Too Campaign and Associate of EnAct International: Trees Have Rights Too: why we need a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights

12.30 Q&A with all speakers chaired by DR VEERLE HEYVAERT

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