Europe strives to be a climate-resilient society by 2050. The European Green Deal is a commitment by the European Union to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. As such it contains a wide range of policy initiatives with the main aim of decarbonizing member States. Achieving these goals means reviewing current laws and creating new ones. In order to curb these dynamics it is required not only a specialist legal knowledge but also an understanding of the underlying political and scientific issues. There is therefore an emergent demand for more conscious European citizens and European scholars about the modern environmental law and the growing crisis of climate change as well as a growing need of more conscious European jurists for tackling sustainability and social justice issues.

On this ground, the proposed Chair:

• will promote excellence in teaching for higher education students of European Union studies and beyond on climate change and climate justice fostering new courses and innovative teaching methods (i.e. an environmental justice MOOT COURT), in order to educate a young generation of legal and political professionals who will be able to develop the necessary legal and policy skills to engage in the legal drafting of legislation, legal advising of governments, corporations and NGOs, adjudication on relevant matters, and more generally play an active role in the evolution of the legal and policy landscape of climate change.
• will respond to specific societal needs and will generate excellence in research gathering leading scholars and experts from the worldwide to a remote geographic area in Italy (Cagliari) for workshops, conferences, summer school and training roundtables in order to provide participants with the best theoretical and practical knowledge of key issues of climate justice also fostering the dialogue between academia and civil society.