Dr Katalin Sulyok at the Hungarian Judicial Academy.

The training covered recent developments in human rights-based climate litigation before the European Court of Human Rights and highlighted the novel aspects of the Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland judgment. Dr Sulyok explained the most innovative elements of the judgments that now shape future rights-based climate litigation cases in the Council of Europe Member States and addressed the defining challenges of climate adjudication, including individual victim status, standing of NGOs, interpreting complex climate science evidence, and finding causality established. 

Dr Katalin Sulyok is currently an Associate Professor in International Law and Sustainability, affiliated with the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy (CSDLP) and the Strategic Research Office delivering on the JusTN0W project, the flagship project of CSDLP.

Katalin Sulyok has been actively involved in domestic and international climate litigation procedures. For three years, she has been the Chair of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) Working Group on the Climate Crises and Human Rights, and has been a legal advisor to ENNHRI, which acted as the oral intervener in the landmark climate litigation proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights in the KlimaSeniroinnen and the Duarte Agistonho cases.