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Friday 16th October 2026
10.30am-12noon
ESADE Law School
Room 101, 1st floor, Building 2
Carrer del Marquès de Mulhacén, 40-42, 08034 Barcelona
Barcelona Climate Week
For Barcelona Climate Week, and with the support of my Ramon y Cajal grant, I am organising a roundtable on the topic of "Unequal distribution of climate harms: the international climate legal framework, loss and damage and their financial underpinnings".
To discuss this topic, Dr David Rossati (Vrije University Amsterdam) and Catriona Flesher (University of Leeds) are coming to ESADE Law School. They will share their research more specifically on the concept of Loss & Damage from different perspectives.
Questions we will cover include: How did we end up with the current system on Loss & Damage? What are the governance issues of the financial arrangements underpinning Loss & Damage projects? How is the concept delimitated in law and what does that mean for affected communities around the world?
The event will be in hybrid form, so please register if you are in Barcelona or if you are interested in the issue from anywhere else! We look forward to having a space for discussion.
The event will take place in Room 101, 1st floor, Building 2, in the Pedralbes campus of ESADE Law School.
The event is taking place in hybrid form, so if you want to join online, please use this link: https://esade.zoom.us/j/92375965283?pwd=usx9VGZpTLTD8E1vgzXPwoPnrwSD0j.1
Catriona Flesher, PhD student
University of Leeds
Catriona Flesher is an interdisciplinary PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, funded by the Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme. Her research explores the lived experiences of climatic losses and damages among one community in rural southern Malawi, with whom she conducted fieldwork in 2024. Turning to international law, her research examines how far these lived experiences of losses and damages are recognised by the international legal frameworks for Loss and Damage. During this research project, she has worked for a range of NGOs in an advisory role, notably as Research Fellow at CARE International in Malawi, Legal Advisor for Legal Response International, and as a Researcher and Youth Representative for the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures’ UNFCCC Taskforce. Alongside this, she has recently started a project on climate adaptation in UK policing as part of The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence. She holds an MSc from the University of Oxford and BA from the University of Cambridge.
Dr David Rossati, Assistant Professor
Vrije University, Amsterdam
David Rossati is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. With expertise in international climate change law, his general research interests lie on law’s relationships with climate governance. His work spans across topics including climate finance, the regulation of trade, investment and development policies for climate mitigation, and the governance of carbon markets. As a legal advisor, he regularly supports NGOs and has trained state officials on issues concerning regulatory aspects of the UN climate change treaties. As a climate law educator, David teaches courses of climate and economic law, including a ‘climate law clinic’ which brings students to learn by actively engaging in real climate justice issues.
This event is part of the grant RYC2024-049989-I, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the ESF+.
