A template to move forward: (left) Silvia Maciunas (Global Affairs), Keith Stewart (Greenpeace Canada), Matthew Hoffmann (Department of Political Science), Steven Bernstein (Department of Political Science), and Jutta Brunnée (Faculty of Law) with moderator Brian Stewart.

“This agreement is a shift to an adaptive or reflexive approach to global governance.” -- International Law scholar Jutta Brunnée

By Peter Boisseau

Two U of T law students are at the COP21 Paris climate talks and blogging about their experiences and the progress of the talks.

2L JD student Alissa Saieva is a COP21 U of T Student Delegate. She is pursuing two Certificates, one in Environmental Studies and one in Aboriginal Legal Studies, as part of her JD program.

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Jutta Brunnée, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, emphasized the importance of "Paris 2015" being where the world confronts the threat of climate change as well as the threat of terrorism ("Let Paris be the moment we confronted two global threats," November 19, 2015).

By Carol Liao, SJD candidate

How do we integrate environmental concerns into the decision-making of companies? This question brought together a league of world-class scholars from across the globe, culminating into a final conference of the Sustainable Companies Project on December 5-6 in Oslo, Norway.