Cristina Hernandez Hurtado is a lawyer and Senior Legal Advisor at the ECCHR in Berlin. As a lawyer, she has focused on issues related to land rights, environmental rights, and environmental conflicts affecting indigenous and farming communities in particular, as well as the protection of ecosystems from the perspective of transitional justice and transnational responsibility.

Parid Ridwanuddin is an Indonesian environmental and climate activist and researcher at the Auriga Nusantara Foundation, focusing on the rights of nature. A key aspect of his work is the protection of endangered islands such as Pulau Pari, whose residents he supports in their climate lawsuit against the Swiss cement company Holcim, seeking to hold global actors accountable for greenhouse gas emissions and rising sea levels.

Miriam Saage-Maaß is a lawyer and vice legal director at ECCHR, where she heads the Business and Human Rights program. She has worked on various cases against corporations and high-ranking managers for their involvement in international crimes, such as arms exports from Europe to Saudi Arabia.

Roda Verheyen is a lawyer, climate litigator, and judge at the Hamburg Constitutional Court. She is co-founder of the “Climate Justice Programme” and “Green Legal Impact” and is considered one of the most influential voices in climate law. As an attorney, she represents people affected by the climate crisis in landmark cases against states and corporations. In 2021, acting as counsel, she secured the historic ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court that enshrined the protection of future generations in Germany’s Climate Protection Act.