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9:45 - 10:00 | Opening

• Patrícia Galvão Teles
• Davor Vidas
• Fernando Loureiro Bastos

10:00 – 10:30 | Introductory talk

• Clive Schofield
  A scientific/geographical/legal perspective on sea level rise

10:30 – 11:45 | ILA Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise: preliminary conclusions and the work ahead

• Davor Vidas
  Levels of responses to sea level rise: an introduction
• David Freestone
  State practice in the context of sea level rise: impacts on treaty interpretation or the creation of customary law?
• Elisa Fornalé
  Sea level rise: the challenges to the concept of statehood and the rights of affected populations
• Davorin Lapaš
  Sea level rise and dilemmas of international legal personality.

11:45 – 12:15 | Coffee-break

12:15 – 13:30 | Discussion of the sea level rise topic at the International Law Commission

• Patrícia Galvão Teles
  Introduction
• Walter Kälin
  A comment on the Second Issues Paper
• Sean Murphy
  Comments
• Giuseppe Nesi
  Comments

13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch

15:00 – 16:15 | Dealing with damages from sea level rise

• Daniela Martins Pereira da Silva
  Climate liability: an evolution through the climate litigation lens
• Lisa Benjamin (online)
  Loss and damage mechanism (Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage)
• Duygu Çiçek
  International financial support for responses to sea level rise

16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee-break

16:45 – 18:00 | Sea level rise and conflict resolution mechanisms

• Shiyue Lu – An overview of the available conflict resolution mechanisms and their shortcomings
• Vasco Becker-Weinberg – The need and the possibility of creating a specific international court for environmental issues
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Sing (online) – International Court of Justice and International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea possible advisory opinions on sea level rise