Making Climate Law Work

"The energy transition is a force that's unstoppable." States have made sweeping promises on climate. But what happens when they don't keep them? In this episode, student hosts Julieta Herrera and Manuela Motta Zini sit down with climate barrister Harj Narulla to interrogate the gap between ambition and accountability. From NDCs to net-zero targets, they unpack what states are actually committing to and whether any of it is legally enforceable, or simply a system built on reputation. Link to our guest's social media accounts: LinkedIn: Harj Narulla,  linkedin.com/in/harj-narulla-249651293/ 

What role can the law really play in averting a climate crisis? In this opening episode, James Dallas, Executive Director of the Energy and Climate Change Law Institute at Queen Mary University of London, sits down with Professor Silke Goldberg, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and Honorary Professor at QMUL, for a wide-ranging conversation that sets the scene for the series ahead. From the legacy of the Urgenda case in the Netherlands to the slow machinery of international climate diplomacy, Silke reflects on where the law has made a difference, where it has fallen short, and what the episodes to come will reveal about the legal tools shaping our response to the climate crisis. Link to our guest's social media accounts: LinkedIn: Silke Goldberg, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, https://www.linkedin.com/in/silkegoldberg/ Key references: Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change by Freddie Otto 

Making Climate Law Work is a podcast from the Energy and Climate Law Institute and qLegal at Queen Mary University of London, exploring how legal tools shape climate action in practice. Each fortnight, we speak with the lawyers, academics, and experts working to turn climate ambition into real‑world action: from carbon markets and corporate accountability to environmental litigation and the deals shaping our net‑zero future.  Season 1 release schedule Episode 1: 21 April Episode 2: 21 April Episode 3: 5 May Episode 4: 19 May Episode 5: 2 June Episode 6: 16 June  New season launches Tuesday 21 April. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  

The composition ‘Sirens’ reflects on the powerful forces of nature in this Anthropocene era.  Concluding with a key change and notes of optimism and stability, this brief melody is intended to evoke feelings of; beauty and danger; warning simple humans of the repercussions of their fantastical short term temptations, and to realistically redress and rebalance their longer term role on this living planet.   Isis, a young teen at the time of composing this tune, attends an academy school in Southwest Scotland. Isis was born in East London. Aged 6, she moved to an otherwise uninhabited island with her family and four Shetland lambs, where she was home educated and necessarily gained a daily understanding of life and death through the seasons and the untameable seas. She moved to a village in the county of Dumfries and Galloway aged 8 to attend ‘real / mainland’ school. Her bio is relevant to this composition in the sense that, for her age, she has a thorough understanding of incredibly diverse environments - from one end of the country to the other - from inland man-made metropolises to wild and agricultural, coastal environments.