The Case for a
Universal
Declaration of Planetary Rights
Can human rights survive without
planetary rights?
Global governance in the 21st Century
Come along to hear environmentalist and former UN ambassador
Sir Crispin Tickell and Cormac Cullinan, author of Wild Law, discuss
the case for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights with Polly
Higgins, Barrister and founder of Trees Have Rights Too Campaign.
Chaired by DR VEERLE HEYVAERT
Department of Environmental Law, LSE
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
11.15 Refreshments
11.45 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
www.treeshaverightstoo.com