Aug 14 2025 to Aug 14 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

It’s here. The climate crisis is no longer a distant warning. 

Climate Change: The Policy, Law, and Practice is a vital intervention. A book that gathers decades of global negotiations, Indian legal battles, and emerging climate jurisprudence into one urgent and accessible narrative. From courtroom precedents to cutting-edge policy, from carbon markets to constitutional rights, it examines how law can both shape and respond to the climate emergency.

Author and legal expert Jay Cheema draws from his experience as Amicus Curiae to the Supreme Court of India in a landmark carbon emissions case. Guiding us through the evolving legal architecture of climate action and accountability, his presentation will be followed by an incisive conversation with an interlocutor to explore the tensions and hopes within the climate discourse. An open Q&A will close the session.

Reshaping landscapes, displacing lives, and challenging our very systems of governance, this crisis can no longer be sidelined. Forests burn where there was once monsoon green, rivers swell as glaciers retreat, and the ancient cycle of India’s six ritus feels increasingly unfamiliar. The chaos predicted by climate scientists in the 50’s is increasingly creeping into our reality. 

Because the climate crisis is not only legal and political, but deeply personal.

Speakers

Jatinder Cheema
Barrister & Solicitor, Author
Jatinder ‘Jay’ Cheema has over 34 years of standing at the Bar in India, and is since 1996 also a Barrister & Solicitor, qualified to practice law in Ontario (Canada), and is, since 2014, an Advocate in the SADC Region (Southern African Development Community). He has worked as a legal practitioner in various High Courts in India, the Supreme Court of India, before Regulators i.e. (PNGRB & DGH), Arbitral Tribunals, policy work for clients and Government of India, and Government of Canada.

He has been a lawyer to Project Developers, Investors, Regulators and Suppliers & Contractors on diverse commercial matters, and utilities and infrastructure advisory. He also advises regulators on various regulatory and policy issues, i.e. PNGRB, DGH, etc.

Apart from his professional engagements, he is a visiting faculty at various prestigious institutions such as IIM, MDI, IICA where he lectures on recent developments in Energy, Infrastructure Law, and Corporate Laws. He has also extensively written about the developments in Domestic and International Law in various law journals, National Dailies and Magazines. Recently his book titled “Climate Change – The Policy, Law, and Practice” (2024) published by Thomson Reuters, has been released.

He has recently been appointed as Amici Curiae in a carbon emission case by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, New Delhi. While there is a plethora of cases in environment space, this is the first case in carbon emissions/climate change.