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Human Rights & Climate Change Law

  • Thursday, March 10, 2022
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Online via Zoom

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The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents
Professor Eleanor Stein on

Human Rights & Climate Change Law

Thursday, March 10th at 7:00 pm Eastern

Online via Zoom 

Click here to register safely and securely online.

The last five years have been the hottest recorded in human history. Devastating wildfires have ravaged towns, cities and wilderness alike, while at the same time storms, floods and droughts are challenging food production and water supply.  These are symptoms of the increase in temperature over both land and oceans, resulting from our ever-increasing burning of coal, oil and gas by the world's wealthiest countries.  

Yet these effects are not felt equally. The developing world is being hardest hit: that is, those who have contributed the least to the problem are experiencing the worst consequences.  As a result, movements for climate justice are calling for recognition of their loss and damage, and for the wealthiest countries to act, as a matter of human rights.  At last, courts and other institutions around the world are viewing climate change through the lens of human rights, and ordering governments to make good on their promises to reduce emissions.


Eleanor Stein teaches on legal issues around climate change and human rights at the State University of New York, and previously at Albany Law School. She serves on the Advisory Board of Rocky Mountain Institute’s eLab and on the Board of the Sanctuary for Independent Media, a community-based justice center for the arts, science and the environment.  She publishes and lectures extensively on climate change and human rights, and facilitates an international conversation of regulators on accelerating the energy transition. 

As an administrative law judge at New York State’s energy regulator, she adjudicated most of New York State’s proceedings on renewable energy and energy efficiency, and mediated the post-Superstorm Sandy collaborative on climate resilience; and was project manager for the state’s Reforming the Energy Vision.

In 2015 she received a Master of Laws degree with distinction in climate change law from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.  She has consulted for Energy Innovation, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, the McKnight Foundation, and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. 

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