Climate Governance Variability in the Great Lakes Project presents “Climate Rights and the Rights of the Great Lakes”

Hosted by the University of Minnesota-Duluth

April 13-14, 2023

Duluth, MN

The Climate Governance Variability in the Great Lakes Project (CGVG) is hosting a gathering of scientists, policy researchers, and academics to examine how climate-driven disturbances are impacting the Great Lakes region, and policy solutions to those disturbances at the local, state, federal and tribal governmental level.

This National Science Foundation-funded project at the University of Minnesota-Duluth has invited Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, to present on a panel entitled “Climate Rights and the Rights of the Great Lakes” to talk about the emerging legal field of recognizing and enforcing the legal rights of nature, how those laws have been used to protect waterways, and how they could be used to limit climate change and its effects on the Great Lakes region.