Filmvorführung & Diskussion
What is Owed? Taking the Climate Crisis to the World’s Court
Nach jahrelanger Lobbyarbeit einer Koalition junger Menschen aus den von der Klimakrise am stärksten betroffenen Ländern hat der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) im Dezember 2024 eine Reihe öffentlicher Anhörungen durchgeführt. Nun soll er über die Untätigkeit der größten Klimasünder und über die Frage der Klimagerechtigkeit für die kleinsten Nationen und die Jugend der Welt entscheiden. Wie sehen die Perspektiven der am stärksten Betroffenen und der künftigen Generationen aus, und was können wir von der Entscheidung des IGH erwarten?
Wir laden Sie zu einer öffentlichen Vorführung des Films What is Owed? von Suneil Sanzgiri ein, der für die Ausstellung Visual Investigations entstanden ist und den Überlebenskampf auf den Pazifischen Inseln untersucht. Im Anschluss findet ein Gespräch mit Anjli Parrin (GHRC) statt. Ein Vertreter von PISFCC/WYCJ ist ebenfalls eingeladen (in Vorbereitung).
Ort: Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Barer Str. 40, Munich
Eintritt: kostenlos
Film: What is Owed?
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People on the frontlines of the climate crisis are frequently those who have contributed least to climate harms—including Indigenous groups, individuals living in small island nations and communities across the Global South.
While climate scientists, legal scholars, and world leaders debate the extent of the climate crisis and how to mitigate it, coalitions of young people have been working together to take action on their own, refusing to let their homes disappear. Following years of advocacy, in March 2023, the United Nations adopted a resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—the “World’s Court”—to rule on the obligations owed by top violators due to climate inaction. The Court has received a record number of written submissions, has held a series of public hearings from 2 to 13 December 2024, and will deliver its opinion after deliberation.
The film installation What is Owed? Taking the Climate Crisis to the World’s Court has been developed by Suneil Sanzgiri in close collaboration with youth groups and student campaigners from the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC), the World’s Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ), SITU Research, and the University of Chicago’s Global Human Rights Clinic (GHRC).
Anjli Parrin is a Kenyan human rights lawyer and assistant clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she directs the Global Human Rights Clinic. The Clinic works alongside partners and communities to advance justice and address the structural disparities that lead to human rights violations worldwide. Parrin conducts human rights factfinding, investigations, research, and advocacy in the areas of armed conflict and international criminal law, colonialism and its impacts, climate justice, discrimination and inequality, and socio-economic rights. She is also an advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions.
Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) are a coalition of lawyers, activists, and students from the Pacific Islands who are seeking climate justice at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). They are demanding that the court respond to a legal question to develop international law, integrate legal obligations around environmental treaties and basic human rights and clarify state responsibility for climate harm.
World’s Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ) is a global youth-led campaign to take climate change and human rights to the ICJ to seek an advisory opinion. In 2020, standing in solidarity with the PISFCC and recognizing that global support was needed to obtain an advisory opinion on climate change from the ICJ, youth from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe organized as WYCJ. WYCJ seeks to convince states from within and beyond respective national boundaries to protect the rights of present and future generations from the adverse effects of climate change.