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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Many thanks to Thalia Viveros Uehara for this wonderful review of my book in @recieljournal.bsky.social. If I had to summarise the core idea of the book in a single sentence, I could not put it better than this: "adjudicative bodies have increasingly become.. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Happy to see my work on climate change, mental health, and human rights @jlme-journal.bsky.social referenced in a recent article on eco-anxiety by the Malaysian National News Agency. The mental-health impacts of the triple planetary crisis can no longer be treated 1/2 www.bernama.com/en/thoughts/...

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- Eco-anxiety, The Overlooked Psychological Burden Of The Climate Crisis

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Next week I'll be visiting @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-stg.bsky.social as part of Welsh Government's @taithwales.bsky.social research mobility award! I’ll also be presenting on international legal framework for the clean-up of marine plastic pollution @eui-law.bsky.social. www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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Towards an international legal framework for the clean-up of marine plastic pollution

This event features a discussion with Dr. Sam Varvastian (Cardiff University).

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

My submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the draft General Comment No. 27 on children’s right to access to justice and to an effective remedy. I have proposed some changes to the text of the Draft that concern access to justice in the context 1/3 www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The latest issue of the @jlme-journal.bsky.social is hot off the press, including my piece “Climate Change and Mental Health: A Human Rights Perspective”. Many thanks to the editorial team for their excellent work on this issue - it's an honor to be included. 1/3 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

More book review news from this week: happy to see my review of the excellent Jolene Lin and Jacqueline Peel, Litigating Climate Change in the Global South (‪@oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬ 2024) now out in the latest issue of @teljournal.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Happy to see Sam Adelman's wonderful review of my book in @journallawsociety.bsky.social, which raises key concerns about the efficacy of international environmental law - for example, the fact that the ongoing session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a treaty on plastic 1/2

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The International Court of Justice has just delivered a powerful advisory opinion on the obligations of states in respect of climate change. Some key takeaways: 1/ www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Our new @scientistscoa.bsky.social policy brief on the importance of regulating plastic products and taking other steps to avoid the releases/leakages of chemicals and other pollutants from plastics, thus protecting both the environment and human health, is now out. zenodo.org/records/1563...

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Article 7 on Releases and Leakages: Why is this article important and what could be improved?

This policy brief is one within a series focused on examining the wording within articles of the Chair’s draft text (version published on December 1, 2024) for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commit...

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Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Excited to share my latest work "Climate Change and Mental Health: A Human Rights Perspective" out in OPEN ACCESS in the @jlme-journal.bsky.social. While the impacts of climate change on physical heath are globally recognized as potentially endangering human rights ...1/3 doi.org/10.1017/jme....

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