Make the Case: how international law can help protect people from climate change

A competition launched by: Oxfam International, The Climate Justice Programme, and Advocates for International Development.

Keely Boom, Executive Officer for The Australian Climate Justice Program has won the global competition on climate change and human rights law. The competition was run by Oxfam International, Advocates for International Development and the international Climate Justice Programme.

The aim of the competition was to emphasise the international obligations of states, stimulate innovation and progress in international law addressing climate change, and to bring public attention to the urgency of the matter. We called on lawyers, academics and law students worldwide to put forward the strongest legal case possible to demonstrate that rich countries’ greenhouse-gas emissions are violating the human rights of people in developing countries. For full details, and the competition question download the competition guidelines. (PDF)

The judges of the competition included a panel of internationally renowned lawyers - Professor in International Law Christine Chinkin, Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Judge Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Oxfam legal adviser Joss Saunders and Deputy High Court Judge Stephen Hockman QC.

Read Keely Boom's winning entry (PDF)