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Matthias Petel

@mpetel.bsky.social
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Researching on climate politics & litigation, sovereign debt and climate reparations (Harvard Law and ULB)

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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Un petit retour sur la tentative du gouvernement Petro en Colombie de faire émerger un socialisme sans pétrole : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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« La chute de la gauche en Colombie marque la fin du laboratoire de “l’économie de la vie” »
TRIBUNE. La Colombie illustre un dilemme central des pays du Sud : devoir s’affranchir des énergies fossiles tout en en tirant l’essentiel de ses ressources publiques, expliquent les juristes Matthias...
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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If you want to join us to discuss rights-based environmental governance👇
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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In my post for the Sabin Center’s Climate Law Blog series on climate reparations, I argue for a structural approach of reparations focusing on dismantling the financial subordination of the Global South embedded in debt relations blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
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Toward Structural Climate Reparations? A Legal Agenda to Address the Financial Subordination of the Global South - Climate Law Blog
Legal scholarship on climate reparations has so far focused almost exclusively on financial compensation whereby wealthier nations provide funding to cover the costs of climate-induced disasters in de...
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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My contribution to the @verfassungsblog.de and @sabincenter.bsky.social joint symposium on the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion is out! In short : the Court insists on cooperation but avoids defining what a fair allocation of burdens requires 🔗 blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
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Cooperation Without Justice? On the Elusive Differentiation of Responsibilities in the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion  - Climate Law Blog
Climate change is both a global crisis that binds humanity to a shared fate – a “common concern for humankind” – as well as the revealer of historical inequalities on the international stage, rooted i...
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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Here is for a friendly ecosocialist critique of rights of nature. Let's work on a political approach to rights of nature that recognizes that environmental degradation is rooted in power assymetries within human societies. www.openglobalrights.org/beyond-the-c...
openglobalrights.org
Beyond the critique of anthropocentrism: Rethinking the rights of nature
The ecological crisis is not the reflection of a human-centered mindset, but the outcome of deeply unequal power relations within human societies.
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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Delighted about this prize ! Thank you so much to the reviewers, the editors, the jury and all my friends and colleagues who had to suffer me talking, talking and talking about this project.
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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Happy to share a new piece co-authored with Sam Bookman that examines how climate justice—addressing the unequal distribution of burdens and benefits in climate action—is integrated into climate litigation in Europe. Would love to hear your thoughts! 🌱
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Climate Litigation & Climate Justice : The Distributional Implications of Rights-Based Climate Actions in Europe | Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric
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