CASELAP holds fourth annual lecture on climate change
The guest speaker, Prof. Randall S. Abate, a scholar from Florida A&M University.
Climate change poses grave development challenges to Kenya, Africa and the whole world. It is now widely recognized as the major environmental problem facing the globe.
To this end, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP) and the School of Law recently held a public lecture on climate change titled “Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies.” The lecture is part of the annual lecture series organized by CASELAP which began three years ago, as part of an intellectual focus on environmental matters.
The distinguished speaker, Prof. Randall S. Abate, a scholar from Florida A&M University, spoke on the vast effects of climate change, how indigenous people are affected and the laws and initiatives put in place to protect this group of people.
“Indigenous people are at the “the tip of the spear” of climate change impacts, they are among the first to experience the impacts and the least equipped to adapt to the impacts,” he said. “The world needs to recognize these realities and domestic and international protections need to be implemented.”
In attendance was Prof. Lucy Irungu, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, Production and Extension, Prof. C.O. Okidi, Director, CASELAP, Prof. James Odek, Dean, School of Law, Prof. E.N. Njeru, Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, lecturers and students.
The lecture is the 4th in an ongoing series of distinguished lectures hosted by CASELAP in collaboration with different units in the university.
The effects of climate change in Kenya.