🌍 Only 9 days left for a groundbreaking Online Event on Climate Litigation! 🌍

🗣️ "Child/Youth Participation, Climate Action, and Success in a Climate Case"

🗓️ May 21, 2025
🕜 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. (Ireland/UK time)
💻 Online
🔗 Free & Open to all! - Resgiter now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e3fce2...

🗣️On 1 May, PI Prof Aoife Daly spoke at the 21st Annual Conference of the Centre for Law and the Environment at University College Cork. Her presentation explored How Child and Youth-Involved Climate Litigation is Child Participation: From Children’s Rights to Everyone’s Rights 👏🌱

📢 Come work with us at @ucc.ie! The Youth Climate Justice project is hiring a Research Assistant to engage in administrative tasks, literature reviews, academic writing, website, database updating, and more!

🔗 Find more info here: www.ucc.ie/en/youthclim...

‼️Deadline is tomorrow at noon!

🌍 Join us for a groundbreaking online event on Child/Youth Participation, Climate Action, and Success in a Climate Case!

🗓️ Wednesday, May 21, 2025
🕜1:30 - 4:30 p.m. (Ireland/UK time)
💻Online via Microsoft Teams
🔗Open to All - Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e3fce2...

❓ Did you know we have a monthly newsletter? 🤔 Subscribe to our Research Network and be the first to receive the latest updates and news from the YCJ Project! 🌱

🔗 Sign up here! www.ucc.ie/en/youthclim...

✍️In a new article for our website, Niamh, young climate activist, reflects on children's right to participation under the UNCRC 🌱🌍

🔗Read the full story here! www.ucc.ie/en/youthclim...

The Youth Climate Justice team was present at the Biennial Workshop on Developing Research in Children’s Rights and Family Law, hosted by @ucc.ie's School of Law on 10-11 April. We held discussions on #ChildParticipation, the #RightToAHealthyEnvironment and #ClimateLitigation 🗣️🌱🌍

Check out this article on the Juliana case, where US youth tried to hold their gvt to account on climate change, written by PI Prof Aoife Daly and PhD Researcher Liesl Muller.

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

🗣️PI Prof Aoife Daly will be speaking at the
@oxfamireland.bsky.social #GroundUp25: Climate Justice Forum on 11 April!

💬She’ll be discussing #Rights, the #Law and the Struggle for #ClimateJustice at 3:45pm.

🔗Make sure you register now: oxfamireland.org/ground-up-cl...

📍@ucc.ie, Devere Hall.

✍ In a new article for our website, Emilia, member of the YCJ's Young Advisory Team, reflects on her journey as #ClimateActivist and #Litigator in a climate lawsuit against the Peruvian State.

🔗 Read the full story here! 👉 www.ucc.ie/en/youthclim...

📢 This Saturday, 5th April, an art exhibition about the YCJ project is taking place in Nepal!

🤝 Organised by our Postdoc Researcher Dr. NabinMaharjan in collaboration with Jyapu Samaj Yala, the exhibition will show the artwork of children and youth who have been involved in our Nepal case study.

🗣️Yesterday, Prof Aoife Daly chaired the Annual COP Reflection Event as part of @ucc.ie's #GreenWeek!

🤔The panel shared their experiences from #COP29, such as the impact the host country has on these events, the media's influence, and the role UCC and Ireland can play at COP🌍💪

🗣️ PI Aoife Daly presents today at the 2025 Symposium: Children and Constitutions in the Anthropocene Era hosted by Washington and Lee Law Review!

🤔 She'll present on #YouthPoweredLitigation and #GlobalConstitutionalism.

🔗Register to attend online! lawreview.wlulaw.wlu.edu/2025-symposi...

🌱On 29 January, our PostDoc Researcher Dr. Nabin Maharjan was invited by the Thames International College/School of Social Science as a guest lecturer.

🗣️He presented on "Understanding the importance of indigenous knowledge and practices in the time of the climate crisis" 👏

✊At 12 years old, Alana, young Kenyan climate advocate and member of our Young Advisory Team, takes on COP29!

✍️In a new article for our website, she shares insights, tips and inspiring words for other young people.

🔗Read it here! www.ucc.ie/en/youthclim...

🎉A new year and we're back with more research forums!

🗣️Join us on 27 February at 2pm (UTC) for a conversation with Digno Montalván on the "Advances and Challenges of Intergenerational Justice in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights".

🔗Register now! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/49fa1a...

With Storm Éowyn forecast to reach Ireland later in the week and following Met Éireann's Status Red Wind warning, the opening of all UCC campuses on Friday will be delayed until 12 noon.
Keep monitoring our channels for any further announcements on this evolving situation.

📰 #BigNews! The Youth Climate Justice project was covered in the Himalayan Times! The piece explores #Postpaternalism, #ParticipatoryActionResearch and includes insights into our soon-to-begin #Nepal case study.

🔍Read the full story here: thehimalayantimes.com/opinion/the-...

✍Agastya, a Young Advisor for the YCJ project, reminds us how and why youth play a pivotal role in driving the transition towards more sustainable climate policies 📣🌱

🔗Read the latest blog written by Agastya himself on our website: www.ucc.ie/en/youthclim...