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CHN joins International Meeting at Humboldt University to discuss Human Existence and Ecological Integrity

July 20th, 2008

CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel, and CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele, participated in the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) 2008 annual conference meeting at the historic Humboldt University, Berlin. The Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) includes more than 250 scholars and independent researchers worldwide, from diverse disciplines, including ecology, biology, philosophy, epidemiology, public health, ecological economics and international law. The theme of the conference this year was “Reconciling Human Existence and Ecological Integrity.” Dr. Kintzele presented her in-process work, “Is Nature Alive in International Law? A Legal, Scientific and Philosophical Critique of the Language Used to Describe Natural Values in International Law.” Dr. Engel had the privilege of joining Bill Rees, Beata Weber (a former member of the European Parliament and the current mayor of Heidelberg) and Heinrich Fuchs (a Green party member of the German parliament and the President of the Boll Foundation) in addressing several hundred Berliners on “Is the World at a Tipping Point?” In 2009, CHN will join the group at the Institute of European Universities in Florence, Italy to discuss State Sovereignty, International Law and Ecological Integrity, and to convene a special session on international protected areas and sacred spaces.

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