讲座名称：Decoding Best Available Climate Science for Climate Law - The use of climate scientific evidence in recent climate litigation and advisory opinions

时间：2026-05-08 10:00

地点：创新港校区

讲座人：Haomiao Du。She is specialised in international and comparative climate law (the EU, China, and Vietnam). Currently, her research interest lies in the interaction between climate science and climate law, which includes the integration of legal aspects into global climate scenarios (one direction of interaction – from law to science) and the interpretation of climate science for climate litigation and policy (the opposite direction – from science to law). Additionally, Haomiao is interested in the regulation of disruptive technologies for tackling climate change. She is the author of International Legal Framework for Geoengineering (Routledge, 2017). Haomiao is passionate about interdisciplinary research into climate change and aims to increase the voice of legal scholars in the scientific community of climate change. She has published broadly in both legal (e.g. Review of European, Comparative and International Law) and scientific (e.g. Global Environmental Change) journals. Beyond her academic work, she provides legal expertise for climate adaptation projects in Vietnamese Mekong Delta and carbon dioxide removal projects in the Netherlands. She was an intern with the Legal Affairs at the UNFCCC.

讲座摘要：Climate litigation is expanding worldwide, strengthening the accountability for emitters, accelerating urgent climate action, and safeguarding climate justice. Interpreting climate science now sits at the heart of litigation. Courts diverge in selecting and interpreting climate scientific evidence to assess past and future climate change and impacts, substantiating emission-reduction obligations, concretising standards of due diligence and identifying attribution and causal links.