Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026forums in which the limits of conventional regulatory responses are brought into view and where human rights arguments acquire practical relevance, moving from the periphery toward the centre of environmental claims." Very grateful for the thoughtful engagement with the book😊 000
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Many 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/... 101
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026... as a side issue, if the rights to health and a healthy environment are to mean anything, this discussion must move into the mainstream. 010
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Happy 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/...bernama.com- Eco-anxiety, The Overlooked Psychological Burden Of The Climate Crisis 121
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025If you’re around, I’d love to connect, share ideas, or simply say hi - please feel free to reach out! 000
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Next 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...eui.euTowards an international legal framework for the clean-up of marine plastic pollutionThis event features a discussion with Dr. Sam Varvastian (Cardiff University). 111
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 29/09/2025facilitating children’s right to access to justice and to an effective remedy. 000
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 29/09/2025of planetary crises: a) acknowledging the combined impacts of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss on children, including the importance of considering the best available science when dealing with health harms; b) more explicit recognition of the role of civil society organisations in 110
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 29/09/2025My 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...ohchr.org 120
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025...that links human rights, mental health, and climate change in ways that can drive meaningful progress. Full issue is available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgLatest issue | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge CoreJournal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 000
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Special thanks also to @lancegable.bsky.social for the insightful and thought-provoking commentary. I fully agree that expanding research, regulation, advocacy, and institutional support - alongside litigation - is essential to building a multifaceted approach.. 2/3 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025The 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... 122
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025This book is a vital resource - not only for scholars and practitioners of climate litigation, but also for anyone with an interest in transnational and comparative environmental law, and related fields. 010
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025More 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... 120
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 11/08/2025pollution has been facing the well-known challenges of anti-regulatory lobbying, similar to those encountered in earlier negotiations on climate change and other planetary crises. 2/2 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 000
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Happy 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 1/2 122
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- Each State that has suffered harm can seek responsibility of all States that have contributed to that harm, reparations determined on a case-by-case basis. 010
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- If States fail to take appropriate action with regard to climate change (including failure to properly regulate the conduct of private parties), this may constitute a wrongful act under international law; 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- States have a duty to cooperate and act in good faith to make a meaningful global response; 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- States must ensure that nationally determined contributions meet the standards under the Paris Agreement; 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- States must act with due diligence and make best efforts to meet their mitigation and adaptation obligations – standard of diligence is high; 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- Recognizes that a healthy environment is a precondition for full enjoyment of human rights and that climate change can endanger various rights including to life, health, etc. Human rights law is also applicable to climate change. 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- Recognizes the applicability of a broader body of international law - including the law of the sea, international environmental law on biodiversity, air quality, etc, and customary international law to climate change; 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025- ICJ recognizes the existential and planetary threat of climate change, extraterritoriality of GHG emissions, and the best available science; 100
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The 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...icj-cij.org 132
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Our 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...zenodo.orgArticle 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... 000
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025..consideration of the intertwined nature of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. 3/3 @cambridgeup.bsky.social 010
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025...the impacts on mental health have received overwhelmingly less attention. And yet, the rights-based approach to climate change and mental health already exists at the international and domestic levels, although it is still in its very early days and needs significant development, including ...2/3 110
Sam Varvastian @samvarvastian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Excited 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.... 122