 Thank you very much, Heather. Hello, everybody. My name is Cosmin Corinda. I'm working for United Nations University and I'm a lawyer by profession, but today I will try not to keep it so legal, so not to be so boring for you I'll try to speak more general considering that this is the first session which intends to present Legal aspects at CBA 7. Okay, here we go. So I wanted to know from the beginning that it's Paradox there is not so much to talk about legally speaking international arena. Nothing happens The climate negotiations are not very going very well International agreements are not there yet. However, there are over 1,000 agreements conventions understandings on environmental law in this world which are not used is the most is the branch of law which is the most Agreements and conventions and international level and it's a pity that people are not aware of that So my presentation will be about that. I started a few years ago when I started my research in Pacific and I've noticed that Bays to conduct research in Pacific is not present. It's customary law It's traditional law which is regulated by by by families and plans But not so much of written law. So this is where I came up with the idea of having a solution in order to try to find a better understanding of What law and what law can bring to climate change and community-based adaptation as well? this is where the name of the hybrid law comes and it intends to bring three branches of international law which is the environmental law the human rights law and the Refugee law and put them together to work to to analyze a case. It started as a research tool However, it was so much spread during the around the world including the Inuit case in Arctic Petition and many many students around the world are using it that probably hopefully next in the next future. It will become a concept of law so You took the three branches of in of international law and you are putting to work for you in order to create a better case Analysis this helps you for several reason for several reasons However, the purpose of it is that you are taking an environmental law Case study. So it's a climate change case study anything you can take floods You think can take sea level rise you can take droughts and so on and so on so this Breaches some principles of international over international or over environmental law What what happened the first reaction of people and the first reaction of the society that the human rights are violated instantly? So if you have a if you have a flood the right to Housing is the it's affected sometimes right to health right to food right to develop and so on and so on if you Have seen as it's the right to life itself It's which is affected because you might your island in case of pacific might disappear and so on So this is the first fact which happens and then it's a tendency that people have two choices where they do this and they adapt or they flee Unfortunately the fleeing case which is called the migration and it's somehow related to the refugee law. It's increasingly It's increasing every year. So over 30% of the case where people it's affected Regardless, which is rapid onset and slow and set people tend to flee Which is not and then sometimes there you have the the scorers and everybody's starting to talk. Oh, okay It's a migration as adaptation or it's a migration of a failure of adaptation and so on and so on and all the discussions start to come around So the advantages of using the human rights the Hybrid law has it's it clears the case study from the legal perspective and it gives you the opportunity to have it more To see it more clearly For example, some principles of environmental law like the principle do not harm or Polluter pace and so on and so on Are more developed than the human rights law for example and the human rights does not prevent does not give So strong tools in order to address those violations in the case of a climate change and then the second nature which is a most important Advantage is the increasing protection of the people because it's a human center potential and you have to talk We'll have to talk about the people who are affected in the communities The example for example, it's a principle of refugee law, which is called or a format The receiving society the receiving country is not supposed to send you back if you are in danger This is a large interpretation of it and it can be applicable in any any Climate case in any climate change case for example to now miss in 2004 or the floods here or Even all the Southeast Asia and Pacific or most currently So the from the environmental law, this is the dreaming principles of The the environmental law which unfortunately they are not happening So you have the duty to not cause environmental harm, which is actually breach every day You have the polluter place principle which is actually talking bringing back to the mitigation discussion earlier today, which is not very effective and From the human rights perspective you have you all you can see that every climate change scenario Affects at the points your human rights. There is no such a country with no human rights violations in the world This is clearly however the climate change is even Emphasizing on the on the violations unfortunately and some rights which are not so which are basically human rights are Becoming affected. You have the right to work right to development in the case of the state of the states You have the right to serve the termination and so on and so on From the refugee law perspective, of course, you have heard of course like a million times probably the discussion about the refugee The climate refugees and the climate migrants Rhetically it it's illegal. I mean it's not illegal to talk about it But they are not existing according to United Nations High Commissioner refugees. They do not exist the Convention from 1951 and its protocol from 67 does not regulate the climate migrant or the climate refugee Because they say that the persecution which happens in the state has to be from social for social cultural or political reasons However, if you have this This this definition and you make it Broadly interpreted you can see that a person can be interpreted to be Persecuted by a climate change event in all in its own country That brings to the discussion a lot of a lot of theoretically law and a lot of Opportunities to create these legal frameworks everybody wants and everybody needs Another example is the principle of normal for more which I mentioned earlier before which is applicable only to the refugee law However, if you take it again, and you give it a broader interpretation It's it's it's a much easier to to work with and apply in the climate change scenarios IOM came in 2007 on environmental migrants definition But it's soft law which means is not binding everybody's just taking it as a recommendation and so on and it's very broad It brings everybody on board. However, the state not recognize it people do are not aware of that and actually is not so much regulated The community based adaptation This is a community based adaptation case study and this is means that you if you act locally And you take the bottom up approach instead of the top bottom approach It can bring you more benefits if you start bringing at practitioners legal questions in your research or legal questions for the communities or develop legal frameworks at the community level that Increase the protection of the respective community and that will be more it will give more legal heaviness to your to your case to your community and More of that it can be bought to the national or regional level So the bottom up approach is very important and not to stay there and wait for an International convention to come and regulate us and so on and so on and meanwhile what we do Well, we just fight we have some awarding lack of language discussion and so on and so on Of course for that you have to be open-minded So it's called progressive interpretation of law and this means that you have to see law as a tool in order to help people and not necessarily to regulate them in a way They are not aware of or they are not willing to you and this progressive Interpretation of law it means that it can bring a lot of benefits to the people at the local level more than international arena We don't have to wait for the international arena to react when you can act legally and eventually take advantage of those 1000 conventions agreement understanding someone I mentioned before and Put them to use. Thank you