International Conference

"Ways to Legally Implement Intergenerational Justice"

International Conference

"Ways to Legally
Implement
Intergenerational
Justice"

27th and 28th
May 2010

Introduction/Presentations

09h40 – 10h00

The project “Ways to legally implement intergenerational justice” – significance of the theme

Marisa dos Reis
Project Leader of the Conference, Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany

Partners and sponsors
10h00 – 10h10

Dr. Maja Göpel
Director Future Justice
World Future Council

10h10 – 10h20

Prof. Dr. Armando Marques Guedes
University Nova de Lisboa – Faculty of Law
President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Society of International Law

10h20 – 10h30

Prof. Dr. Manuel Almeida Ribeiro
Steering Committee of the Portuguese Association for the United Nations
High Institute for Political and Social Sciences (ISCSP)

10h30 – 10h40

Clotilde Camara Pestana
Director Jacques Delors European Information Centre

10.40-10h50

Paula Viegas
Coordinator Brand Management and Sustainability
Caixa Geral de Depósitos

11h00 – 11h30

Key note speech: Our intergenerational obligations
Prof. Dr. Axel Gosseries
University of Louvain, Belgium

First panel discussion – What is Intergenerational Justice?

11h30 – 11h50

Input Statement: Intergenerational Justice – Scope and Limits
Prof. Dr. Jörg Tremmel
University of Tübingen, Germany

11h50 – 12h10

Input Statement: Ontological debt and Intergenerational
Justice – The Case of Climate Change

Prof. Dr. Viriato Soromenho-Marques
University of Lisbon
Scientific Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Environment Programme, Portugal

12h10 – 12h30

Input Statement: Democracy and its Boundaries. Can there be
such a thing as a bona fide intergenerational social contract?

Prof. Dr. Armando Marques Guedes
University Nova de Lisboa – Faculty of Law
President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Society of International Law, Portugal

12h30 – 13h00

Debate
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Axel Gosseries
University of Louvain, Belgium

13h00 – 14h30

Lunch time

Second panel discussion – Intergenerational Justice in the European LAW

14h30 – 14h50

Input Statement: The Community Environmental Policy as a contribution to intergenerational justice
Pedro Barbosa
European Commission Directorate-General for the Environment, Portugal

14h50 – 15h10

Input Statement: The European Convention on Human Rights
and the Right to a Healthy Environment

Abel de Campos
Head of Legal Division of the European Court of Human Rights

15h10 – 15h30

Input Statement: On How to Represent Future Generations
in European Governance

Dr. Maja Göpel
Director Future Justice, World Future Council, Belgium

15h30 – 15h55

Debate

Moderator Prof. Dr. Manuel Almeida Ribeiro
Steering Committee of the Portuguese Association for the United Nations
High Institute for Political and Social Sciences (ISCSP)

15h55 – 16h20

Coffee break

Third panel discussion – Intergenerational Justice and International Law

16h20 – 16h45

Input Statement: Implementing intergenerational justice:
Children at the heart of policy making

Lucy Stone
Climate Change Manager, Unicef UK

16h45 – 17h10

Input Statement: Crimes Against Future Generations
Sébastien Jodoin
Legal Research Fellow
Centre for International Sustainable Development Law/World Future Council, Canada

17h10 – 17h35

Input Statement: The Failure of Copenhagen and its consequences for International Relations
Dr. Marisa Matias
Deputy of the European Parliament, Belgium

17h35 – 18h00

Debate
Moderator: Patrick Wegner
Managing Director of the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany

18h00

Free Evening