With a sense of responsibility towards our planet and the right to a healthy environment, Kadir Has University Faculty of Law founded the “Climate Change and Law Laboratory”!.
Our rationale:

• Being aware of the fact that Planet Earth is our only home
• Being concerned with the recent results of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report on Global Warming
• Facing the reality of severe results of climate change as wildfires, floods, depletion of water resources, melting glaciers
• Believing that every contribution is invaluable in the struggle against climate change and it is time for the jurists to step in

• Contributing to the global objective of “saving our future”
• Training the next generation of lawyers with a climate awareness
• Founding a long-term platform for discussions on the legal side of struggling climate change by gathering legal scholars, experts, practitioners, lawmakers, and other concerned groups
• Creating an opportunity to get together with world-known experts on related topics
• Raising climate awareness amongst the target group
• Drawing attention to possible climate change and disaster displacements, climate refugees
• Introducing this critical field to Turkish legal scholars and practitioners in order to start discussions for the development of Turkish Law policies to address climate change