International Bar Association: Global Insight podcasts

• Climate finance

  The need for financial assistance for developing nations to address the effects of the climate crisis and to transition to low-carbon economies continues to grow. But the specifics on how much and how to implement this have been the subject of intense negotiation. At the 29th UN Climate Change Conference (COP29), what’s known as the New Collective Quantified Goal was agreed on after negotiators agreed to raise $300 billion a year in climate finance – triple the original $100 billion target – by 2035. However, this figure doesn’t account for inflation, and some feel it still falls short of what is needed to tackle the severity of the crisis.   Podcast speakers: David Waskow, Director of the International Climate Initiative at the World Resources Institute, Washington, DC Harjeet Singh, Global Engagement Director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, New Delhi Emily Morison, Project Lawyer, IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit

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• Navigating AI regulation: EU focus

  The EU’s AI Act came into force in 2024 and will regulate Artificial Intelligence systems in the European Union based on which ‘risk category’ they fit into. Its provisions will mostly become applicable over the next two years. The Act is far from the only piece of legislation or agreement covering AI in the EU, with others including the updated Product Liability Directive, a proposed AI Liability Directive and the Council of Europe Framework on Artificial Intelligence. In this Global Insight podcast, we consider the significance of the developments with: Marc Rotenberg, President of the Center for AI and Digital Policy and Chair of the IBA’s AI Task Force Susie Alegre, human rights barrister and author on the impact of AI on human rights Ed Turtle, a senior lawyer on the Products Team at Cooley, focusing on tech and AI products; also an officer on the IBA Product Law and Advertising Committee

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• The climate crisis, human rights and the Klimaseniorinnen case

  In April 2024, a group of older Swiss women successfully argued before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that the Swiss government was failing to take sufficient action on climate change, violating their human rights as a disproportionately affected group under the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the Swiss parliament rejected the judgment in Klimaseniorinnen v Switzerland, claiming the ECtHR had overstepped its legal boundaries and engaged in ‘inappropriate judicial activism’, a stance later supported by the Swiss Federal Council, the country’s highest executive authority. Switzerland has since presented a National Action Report on climate instead, which critics argue will not adequately implement the Court’s judgment. This podcast explores the impact and fallout of the case. With: Richard Harvey, Legal Counsel at Greenpeace UK Elizabeth Stern, claimant in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland Professor Annalisa Savaresi, Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law at the University of East Finland; University of Stirling, Scotland 

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• Mueller's legacy

  Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election that saw Donald Trump become President offered shocking revelations. As US citizens prepare to vote in the presidential election, with Trump once more a presidential candidate, Global Insight assesses the Mueller investigation, its report and the bearing on the rule of law in the US, through to today. Featuring: Glenn Kirschner, former US Department of Justice prosecutor, Washington, DC Matt Kaiser, Kaiser law firm, Washington, DC; Senior Vice-Chair, IBA Criminal Law Committee Shan Wu, former federal prosecutor, Washington, DC    

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• Tariffs, trade and the climate crisis

  Following a divided vote by its member states in October, the EU can now impose extra tariffs of up to 35.3% on electric vehicles – EVs – imported from China for the next five years. The vote follows moves by the US Biden administration earlier in 2024 to raise tariffs on Chinese computer chips, EVs, clean energy technologies and metals imported from China – part of an ongoing series of measures from the countries in recent years in the US-China trade war.

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