Un petit retour sur la tentative du gouvernement Petro en Colombie de faire émerger un socialisme sans pétrole : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

« La chute de la gauche en Colombie marque la fin du laboratoire de “l’économie de la vie” »

TRIBUNE. La Colombie illustre un dilemme central des pays du Sud : devoir s’affranchir des énergies fossiles tout en en tirant l’essentiel de ses ressources publiques, expliquent les juristes Matthias...

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If you want to join us to discuss rights-based environmental governance👇

Megan Tarrant@megantarrant.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Myself, @mpetel.bsky.social and Allison Bishop are seeking presentations for our panel on rights in environmental governance at #POLLEN2026 in Barcelona, June 29th - July 3rd 2026. Fancy joining us? Submit your abstract here by 5th December: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

In my post for the Sabin Center’s Climate Law Blog series on climate reparations, I argue for a structural approach of reparations focusing on dismantling the financial subordination of the Global South embedded in debt relations blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Toward Structural Climate Reparations? A Legal Agenda to Address the Financial Subordination of the Global South - Climate Law Blog

Legal scholarship on climate reparations has so far focused almost exclusively on financial compensation whereby wealthier nations provide funding to cover the costs of climate-induced disasters in de...

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My contribution to the @verfassungsblog.de and @sabincenter.bsky.social joint symposium on the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion is out! In short : the Court insists on cooperation but avoids defining what a fair allocation of burdens requires 🔗 blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Cooperation Without Justice? On the Elusive Differentiation of Responsibilities in the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion  - Climate Law Blog

Climate change is both a global crisis that binds humanity to a shared fate – a “common concern for humankind” – as well as the revealer of historical inequalities on the international stage, rooted i...

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Here is for a friendly ecosocialist critique of rights of nature. Let's work on a political approach to rights of nature that recognizes that environmental degradation is rooted in power assymetries within human societies. www.openglobalrights.org/beyond-the-c...

Beyond the critique of anthropocentrism: Rethinking the rights of nature

The ecological crisis is not the reflection of a human-centered mindset, but the outcome of deeply unequal power relations within human societies.

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Delighted about this prize ! Thank you so much to the reviewers, the editors, the jury and all my friends and colleagues who had to suffer me talking, talking and talking about this project.

Transnational Environmental Law (TEL)@teljournal.bsky.social · last yr.

🏆 The 2024 #TEL Best Article Prize is awarded to Matthias Petel for his article 'The Illusion of Harmony: Power, Politics, and Distributive Implications of Rights of Nature' bit.ly/445fgkL Congratulations! 🥳

Happy to share a new piece co-authored with Sam Bookman that examines how climate justice—addressing the unequal distribution of burdens and benefits in climate action—is integrated into climate litigation in Europe. Would love to hear your thoughts! 🌱