Nos démocraties sont confrontées à une nouvelle problématique: il s'agit de la nécessité de prendre en compte les intérêts des générations futures. Telles qu'elles se pensent et s'exercent à l'heure actuelle, nulle place n'est réservée à la protection des hommes de demain au niveau du processus démocratique. Dans ce contexte, les impératifs de justice intergénérationnels ne peuvent être mis en œuvre. Chaque partie politique se focalise bien souvent sur les préférences très actuelles de l'électorat. Nous souhaitons trouver des moyens pour réconcilier la démocratie avec les impératifs de justice intergénérationnels. À cette fin, il est nécessaire d'instituer les intérêts des générations futures au sein du processus démocratique. Le récent échec du Sommet de Copenhage confirme l'urgence de penser à situer les générations futures au sein de ce processus. Comment faire ?

Lieu

Fondation CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN Aud. 3, Avenida de Berna, 45 A, 1067-001 LISBOA

Programme

THURSDAY, 27th MAY 2010

09h30 – 10h45

• Introduction/Presentation
• Host and Partners

11h00 – 11h30

Key note speech: Our intergenerational obligations. Prof. Dr. Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain, Belgium

FIRST PANEL DISCUSSION – WHAT IS INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE?

• 11h30 – 11h50 Input Statement: Intergenerational Justice – Scope and Limits. Dr. Jörg Tremmel, Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
• 11h50 – 12h10 Input Statement: Ontological debt and Intergenerational Justice – The Case of Climate Change. Prof. Dr. Viriato Soromenho-Marques, University of Lisbon, Scientific Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Environment Programme, Portugal
• 12h10 – 12h30 Input Statement: Democracy and its Boundaries. Can there be such a thing as a bona fide intergenerational social contract? Prof. Dr. Armando Marques Guedes, President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Association of International Law, Portuguese Association for the United Nations, Portugal

12h30 – 13h00 Debate

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain, Belgium

13h00 – 14h30 Lunch time

SECOND PANEL DISCUSSION – INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE IN THE EUROPEAN LAW

• 14h30 – 14h50 Input Statement: Which Understanding of Intergenerational. Justice and/or Sustainability is Expressed in the EU Documents, Representative of the European Commission
• 14h50 – 15h10 Input Statement: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Right to a Healthy Environment. Abel de Campos, Head of Legal Division of the European Court of Human Rights
• 15h10 – 15h30 Input Statement: On How to Represent Future Generations in European Governance. Dr. Maja Göpel, Director Future Justice, World Future Council, Belgium

15h30 – 16h00 Debate

Moderator Prof. Dr. Manuel Almeida Ribeiro, Steering Committee of the Portuguese Association for the United Nations Portuguese Society of International Law, Portugal

16h00 – 16h15 Coffee break

THIRD PANEL DISCUSSION – INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

• 16h15 – 16h40 Input Statement: Implementing intergenerational justice: Children at the heart of policy making. Lucy Stone, Climate Change Manager, Unicef UK
• 16h40 – 17h05 Input Statement: Crimes Against Future Generations. Sébastien Jodoin, Legal Research Fellow, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law/World Future Council, Canada
• 17h05 – 17h30 Input Statement: The Failure of Copenhagen and its consequences for International Relations. Dr. Marisa Matias, Centre for Social Studies and Deputy of the European Parliament

17h30 – 18h00 Debate

Moderator: Patrick Wegner, Managing Director of the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany

18h00 Free Evening

FRIDAY, 28th MAY 2010

09h30 – 10h00

Key note: The institution and practice of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations of Hungary. Sándor Fülöp, Ombudsman Future Generations, Hungary

FOURTH PANEL DISCUSSION – INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE IN NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONS

• 10h00 – 10h25 Constitutions and Future Generations. Prof. Dr. Axel Gosseries
  University of Louvain, Belgium 
• 10h25 – 10h55  French Constitutional Law and Future Generations. Towards the implementation of Transgenerational Principles ?, Dr Emilie Gaillard Sebileau, CRJ Pothier Orléans, France.
• 10h55 – 11h20 Ways to legally implement intergenerational justice in Portugal. Prof. Dr. Francisco Pereira Coutinho, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal

11h20 – 11h55 Debate

Moderator: Sándor Fülöp, Ombudsman Future Generations, Hungary

CLOSING EVENT

• 12h00 – 12h15 Final speech/considerations. Dr. Jörg Tremmel, Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
• 12h15 – 12h30 Final speech/considerations. Dr. Maja Göpel, Director Future Justice, World Future Council, Belgium
• 12h30 – 12h45 Final speech/considerations. Prof. Dr. Armando Marques Guedes, President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Association of International Law, Portuguese Association for the United Nations, Portugal
• 12h45 -13h00 Final speech/considerations. Prof. Dr. Manuel Almeida Ribeiro, Steering Committee of the Portuguese Association for the United Nations, Portuguese Society of International Law, Portugal

Moderator/Presentations : Marisa dos Reis, Project Leader of the Conference, Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany

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