15/10 5pm-7pm: The Road to COP31: Multilateral Climate Cooperation in a Changing World with Vicente Paolo Yu

Law Marketing Resource — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:12:50 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Thu, 15 Oct '26

Photo: UN Climate Change | Lara Murillo

About the Event:

Global leaders and international stakeholders are meeting for COP31, the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Antalya, Türkiye in November 2026, at a time when multilateralism and international law are facing significant geopolitical and economic crises and fragmentation. Escalating military conflicts, rising energy vulnerabilities, trade and financial shocks, and intensifying competition over trade, technology and critical resources are reshaping the political space for cooperation and the material capacity of states to deliver ambitious climate action. These pressures are particularly acute for developing countries, which confront rising climate impacts alongside constrained access to affordable finance, technology and policy space.

This lecture examines what is at stake for the UN climate process in this challenging global context, especially for countries and communities who are least responsible for, but who bear the greatest impact of climate change. The lecture will consider the main issues at stake in Antalya, what challenges will be confronted in negotiation halls and beyond, and the role and importance the multilateral climate regime in the current global context.

Image: Vicente Paolo Yu giving a lecture.

About the Speaker:

Vicente Paolo Yu is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the GLOBE Centre, �� Law SchoolLink opens in a new window and Visiting Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)Link opens in a new window, University of ��. He is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Third World Network, Senior Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Law, Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Mr Yu has decades of experience with trade and climate negotiations and has worked with governments, UN agencies NGOs on global governance, climate change, investment, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development issues.

This event is followed by a drinks reception.
Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

29/10 12pm-2pm: Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle: AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and Surveillance

Law Marketing Resource — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:10:32 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 29 Oct '26

Where: S.2.09, �� Law School, Social Sciences Building

About the Event:

Theme: AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and Surveillance

The use of Artificial Intelligence at work has become an issue for industrial disputes across many sectors in the UK. These issues include AI being used as an opportunity for layoffs and casualisation; deskilling; new forms of algorithmic management and surveillance; work intensification; and unpaid data extraction. Simultaneously, the UK government has pursued a pro-tech-sector AI policy – involving multiple new public sector contracts, data centres and nuclear power projects – while communities raise urgent questions about not only the environmental impact of data centres but also the governmental and corporate data extraction and use of AI to manage, predict, police and wage war. We will discuss the political and legal questions this conjuncture raises: the relationship between labour, data and value; state and corporate knowledge and power through new AI and data extraction infrastructures; the unequal distribution of harms, environmental implications and violence; and the possible relationships between labour and community forms of organising and resistance.

About the Speaker:

Dr Dimitra KotouzaLink opens in a new window is a researcher in the trade union research organisation LRDLink opens in a new window and an independent scholar. She focuses on the politics of class and labour movements, psychic life, and the scientific and technological governance of our ability to work. Her research has appeared in journals such as History of the Human Sciences, Critical Social PolicyLink opens in a new window, Critical Studies in EducationLink opens in a new window, SSM - Mental HealthLink opens in a new window and Journal of Labour and SocietyLink opens in a new window, as well as in non-academic publications such as MuteLink opens in a new window, of which she was a co-editor. She is author of Surplus CitizensLink opens in a new window (Pluto Press, 2019), which brought into theoretical dialogue social movements in the Greek debt crisis. At LRD, she produced the guide AI at WorkLink opens in a new window (2026). She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance from the University of Kent.

Chaired by: Dr Serena NatileLink opens in a new window, �� Law School

About The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle:

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circlebrings together staff and students across the University of �� who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), �� Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.

Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground ��’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.

For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).

For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk

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15/10 5pm-7pm: The Road to COP31: Multilateral Climate Cooperation in a Changing World with Vicente Paolo Yu

29/10 12pm-2pm: Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle: AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and Surveillance