"John Knox" Archive

Knox to discuss upcoming international climate talks in Paris

road map to parisThis is a guest post from the University’s Office of Sustainability:

The world will be watching the international climate talks in Paris Nov. 30-Dec. 11. Join Wake Forest faculty expert John Knox on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. in Farrell Hall’s Broyhill Auditorium for a guided tour of the likely trajectory of these talks.

Knox is Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law in the School of Law. He participated in the Conference of Parties (COP) last year in Lima, Peru, and will attend this year’s talks (COP21) in Paris.

Knox, who also serves as UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment, will discuss what form the agreements are taking, the likelihood that countries will meet their commitments, and whether the fairly massive promises of financial assistance to poorer countries are actually going to be carried out.

After the event, Ben & Jerry’s Save our Swirled Scoop Tour will provide free ice cream from a retrofitted Tesla! More information is available here.

This event is sponsored by the Office of Sustainability and the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability.

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Wake Foresters attend international climate change conference

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Justin Catanoso

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An important international conference on climate change is taking place in Lima, Peru and Wake Forest University has three distinguished voices in attendance.

The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its 20th annual Conference of the Parties (COP 20) is taking place Dec. 1-12.

Justin Catanoso, director of Wake Forest’s journalism program, is a freelance journalist who covers environmental and climate change issues. His reporting is sponsored in part by the Wake Forest Center on Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES), and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C. He is producing stories for WFDD, National Geographic NewsWatch, BusinessInsider.com and the Pulitzer Center.

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Knox speaks at international environmental forum

John KnoxSchool of Law professor John Knox, who is the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and the environment, urged world governments to take into account human rights laws in designing and developing environmental governance at the Global Ministerial Environmental Forum hosted by the U.N. Environmental Programme on Feb. 18-22 in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Thursdays at Byrum Center

Thursdays at Byrum HallThe Provost and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions invite faculty and staff to Thursdays at the Porter B. Byrum Welcome and Admissions Center on Sept. 6.

A wine and cheese reception will run from 4-4:30 p.m., followed by a program from 4:30-5:15 p.m. that will feature Rogan Kersh, Rebecca Alexander, Shannon Mihalko and John H. Knox.

Kersh, the provost and a professor of politics and international affairs, will discuss the question, “Should government officials be involved in efforts to address the U.S. obesity epidemic? If so, are any promising policy options available?”

Alexander, associate professor of chemistry, and Mihalko, associate professor of health and exercise science, will describe how the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center is working to promote and celebrate faculty-student collaborative scholarship.

Knox, the Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, will discuss the question, “Is there a human right to a healthy environment?”

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Leading human-rights scholar will speak

Philip Alston“Targeted Killings Beyond Borders: An International Law Perspective” is the topic of this fall’s Dean’s Distinguished Lecture that will feature Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University Law School. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, in Room 1302 of the Worrell Professional Center. The event is free and open to the public.

“Philip Alston is widely recognized as the leading human rights scholar in the world today,” said professor John Knox.

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