ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacqueline Peel

Jacqueline Peel is a Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School and Director of the multidisciplinary climate initiative, Melbourne Climate Futures, at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She served as a Lead Author on the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report, Working Group III (Mitigation) and led the Hague Academy of International Law’s first-ever Centre for Studies and Research on Climate Change Law in 2022.

POSTS BY Jacqueline Peel

24 May 2024

Jacqueline Peel

Unlocking UNCLOS

By advancing a more holistic vision of climate-relevant international law—one that seeks to harmonise but also allow for complementary interaction amongst the obligations set under different regimes—the ITLOS advisory opinion offers hope. It holds out the promise of a synergistic international legal response to climate change that better maps to the integrated and interconnected nature the ecosystems at stake and to the multi-pronged regulatory effort that will be needed to safeguard our climate system. Continue reading >>