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About the Event:

This socio-legal research examines the legal and financial construction of blue bonds as water-related sustainable finance instruments. While the protection of seas and oceans is increasingly recognised in climate and biodiversity regimes, it remains the least funded global environmental goal. Blue bonds have emerged to channel private finance toward marine and freshwater protection, beginning with Seychelles’ 2018 issuance. This project critically assesses whether different blue bond modalities align with international environmental and human rights law. The research draws on doctrinal analysis and case studies in the Seychelles, Belize, and the Nordic-Baltic region. It adopts a socio-legal perspective informed by critical legal theory and political ecology. Some research findings that will be shared in this seminar include how selected blue bonds fail adequate demonstration of environmental additionality and generate tensions with common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities principle.

About the Speaker:

Arınç Onat Kılıç is a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His research examines whether different modalities of blue finance comply with international environmental law and a human rights-based approach.

Discussant: Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang, PhD Researcher, Oxford Department of International Development.

Lunch will be provided.
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This termly Law School event offers Continuing Professional Development through a review of recent case law developments by our expert colleagues. Volunteers will summarise cases that have intrigued them drawn from fields as diverse as contract law, consumer law, company law, investment arbitration, tax, and intellectual property law. All are welcome to attend (faculty, postgraduate and undergraduate students), either to present a case or to listen and ask questions.

Lunch will be provided.

Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

About the Book

, edited by Gbenga Sesan and Tony Roberts, is the first collected edition book on biometric digital ID across Africa. Nine country case studies by African scholars provide the most comprehensive documentation of digital ID in their country to date. The chapter authors provide the most sustained conceptual analysis of the forces driving the rapid roll-out of biometric identification systems, asking who benefits, what are the impacts on human rights, and what power interests are served by the billions of dollars being invested in digital-ID and digital public infrastructure more widely? In none of the countries studied did citizens ask for the introduction of biometric digital-ID, prompting the question whose agenda is it? The evidence presented in the book suggests that an alignment of security, technology, funder and bureaucratic interests are driving this change and that already marginalised ethnic and low-income groups are often negatively impacted.

About the Speaker

Dr. Tony Roberts is an Emeritus Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He has been working at the intersection of digital technologies, international development and social justice since 1988 as a volunteer, lecturer, practitioner, trustee and researcher. After lecturing in New Technology and Education at the University of East London, Tony founded and directed two international development agencies for over a decade each. He left Computer Aid International aged 48 to begin a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London studying the used of participatory video in international development. He joined IDS after a postdoc in the Gender Tech Lab of the United Nations University, in Macau, China. Tony spent a decade at IDS where he accidently established the African Digital Rights Network with whom he led a series of studies, published 8 reports and 9 books on digital rights. He is the series editor of the "Digital Africa" collected edition book series published by Zed Books/Bloomsbury. For a full list of Tony’s publications and blogs please see his website Appropriating Technology or Google Scholar.