Engagement
Climate Law & Governance Initiative
The Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) is a partnership, led by a coalition from across the global climate law and governance community including university law and governance schools, expert institutes, international organisations, legal offices, law associations and firms, foundations and civil society organisations.
CLGI focuses on legal and institutional responses to the challenges posed by climate change and seeks to complement and coordinate ongoing efforts in this field.
The core activities of the CLGI are centred on four main pillars: First, the CLGI Secretariat organises and coordinates knowledge sharing events alongside the UNFCCC processes and beyond. Second, the initiative provides support and outreach for the capacity building and climate action efforts of its partners. Third, the initiative focuses on involving students and young people from different regions in its activities so as to enhance long term capacity strengthening. Fourth, it hosts an online knowledge centre, which profiles useful knowledge resources and tools and serves as a research repository for the knowledge co-generation aspect of its work including a blog, research reports and a legal working paper series.
Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative
The Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative (BLGI) is a partnership, led by a coalition from across the global biodiversity law and governance community including university law and governance schools, expert institutes, international organisations, legal offices, law associations and firms, foundations and civil society organisations.
BLGI focuses on legal and institutional responses to the challenges facing biodiversity and seeks to complement and coordinate ongoing efforts in this field. The core activities of the BLGI are centred on three main pillars. First, the BLGI Secretariat organises and coordinates knowledge sharing events alongside the UNCBD processes and beyond. Second, the initiative provides support and outreach for the capacity building and biodiversity action efforts of its partners. The final pillar of the initiative focuses on involving students and young people from different regions in its activities so as to enhance long term capacity strengthening.
Voices of Future Generations (VoFG)
The Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative (VoFG CI) is a movement on children’s rights and sustainable development. VoFG CI is a unique programme of action that empowers children to promote the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the World’s Sustainable Development Goal agenda (SDGs).
VoFG’s mission is to assist children to advance the right to education and literacy globally through the children’s book series. Books are authored by children aged 8-12, for children aged 6 and above. These stories from around the world are illustrated and published, and the books disseminated globally to schools and libraries for all children to benefit from the knowledge and insight.
Through their Intergenerational Dialogue Programme, Online Roundtables and Eco-seminars, VoFG enable children to enter into effective and inspiring communication with experts and global leaders, who are effecting positive change in the fields of children’s rights and sustainable development.
Since 2014, they have led the movement to empower children to have a voice about the future they wish to see. Through the Children’s Book Series and Intergenerational Dialogue Programme, children globally speak out about their hopes, dreams and vision for a sustainable world.
The Sustainable Trade and Investment Law Initiative
The Sustainable Trade and Investment Law Initiative (STILI) is a dynamic programme dedicated to exploring the intersections between international trade, investment, and financial regimes with sustainable development objectives. Led by Legal Counsel Prof. Markus Gehring and coordinated by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), STILI engages in cutting-edge legal research and analysis to understand how these frameworks can be aligned—or are currently misaligned—with the achievement of climate goals, environmental protection, and social equity. In particular, STILI examines the legal and policy dimensions of international economic agreements to identify opportunities and barriers to the implementation of the Paris Agreement and countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Recognizing the complex geopolitical landscape and competing global priorities, the initiative also seeks to offer innovative, practical, and legally robust pathways to advance sustainability through economic law. Its global network of legal scholars and practitioners—from Latin America, Europe, New Zealand, and other regions—collaborates on policy briefs, capacity-building, and high-impact publications. Notably, STILI has contributed to two special journal issues: Legal Issues of Economic Integration (2023) and the upcoming issue of the European Foreign Affairs Review (2025). For more insights into the initiative’s ongoing work, see the latest CISDL reports here.