2025 Geneva Dialogues on Human Rights and Climate Change: The Role of Geneva in Building on the Historic Advisory Opinions on Climate Change

The 2025 Geneva Dialogues on Human Rights and Climate Change build on previous editions to discuss how Geneva-based human rights institutions can contribute to further advancing human rights-based climate action. This year’s edition unpacked the landmark advisory opinions on climate change by the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice, and discussed the role of Geneva-based human rights institutions in elevating and building on these rulings.  
It was organized by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Permanent Missions of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Vanuatu, the Geneva Environment Network, Earthjustice, and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Geneva Office, with the support of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Confirmed panelists included: 

• H. E. Doreen de Brum, Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to UNOG 
• Richardo Colmar, Deputy Permanent Mission of Vanuatu to UNOG
• Prof. Elisa Morgera, Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change 
• Prof. Jorge Viñuales, University of Cambridge and LUISS University
• Jule Schnakenberg, Interim Chief Executive Officer, World Youth for Climate Justice 
• Ana Maria Suarez Franco, Secretary General, FIAN International
• Joie Chowdhury, Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)