Climate change hearing before the International Court of Justice

Dan Galpern is an environmental and climate attorney and policy analyst. Since 2011, Dan has served as legal and policy adviser to the climate scientist James E. Hansen. He is also founder, General Counsel and Executive Director of Eugene, Oregon-based Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative, a non-profit, public interest organization that works nationally and internationally.

We reached Dan in The Hague, Netherlands, where he has been monitoring the just-completed proceedings before the International Court of Justice concerning the legal obligations of states in respect of climate change. Dan has also discussed the ICJ proceedings in at least two of his recent blog entrees at cprclimate.org/archive/blog/