Elisa Morgera

Elisa Morgera is UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change. She is Professor of Global Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK) and Adjunct Professor in International and European Union Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Prof Morgera has published extensively on human rights and the environment, the human right to science, as well as the human rights of small-scale fishers, Indigenous Peoples, and children, at the climate-biodiversity and climate-ocean nexus. She has also published on business responsibility to respect human rights, as well as on the international principle and standards of equity among and within States, based on international environmental and human rights law.

Previously, she worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in Italy and the United Nations Development Programme in Barbados; and continued to collaborate with the United Nations and other international organisations as a consultant and independent expert. She advised governments and civil society in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific.

Elisa has provided independent advice into the development of the UN General Comment No. 26 on Children's Human Rights and a Healthy Environment, with a special focus on Climate Change, and has been working towards its uptake in international environmental and ocean governance processes, as part of the Children's Environmental Rights Initiative."