Paulo Magalhães
Paulo Magalhães
Paulo Magalhães is a jurist and researcher at the CIJ - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. He graduated from the Catholic University of Porto, did postgraduate studies at the University of Coimbra, got his PhD in Human Ecology at the New University of Lisbon, and did a post-doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto with work on the legal status of climate. He is the author of “The Earth Condominium – From Climate Change to a New Juridic Conception of the Planet”, 2007, and editor of “SOS - Safe Operating Space Treaty: A new approach to manage our use of the Earth System”, 2016. He is the founder and Executive Director of Common Home of Humanity (Casa Comum da Humanidade) and coordinator of the Task Force for the recognition of Climate as Common Heritage of Humankind. He is Counsellor of CNADS - National Council for Sustainable Development, and at the Scientific Committee of the Portuguese Council for Health and Environment. He received the Green Vision Inspiration Award in 2022, the Gold Medal of Merit by the city of Porto, and Inspiring Portugal Award in Social Economy in 2022.