Student enviro-volunteerism was on display again this year for the 7th annual Research-a-thon. The Research-a-thon is a one-day event where students gather to generate research that supports public interest environmental law in BC and Canada. The goal of this year’s Research-a-thon was to create a list of resources that outline how climate risk and climate justice is understood in different areas of legal practice (e.g. health or immigration law) and how (or if) lawyers have engaged with law reform to respond to climate risk and climate justice. The work was done in support of the non-profit Lawyers for Climate Justice (L4CJ), and it may provide a basis for further work, perhaps with the ELC, on developing a set of climate justice principles, which could be applied in the Canadian legal context to evaluate whether law and policy is consistent and to identify any examples of how climate justice has been considered in law or policy related to climate change mitigation or adaptation. The lunchtime speaker was ELC Associate and Alum Erin Gray, lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law and member of L4CJ.
