Client Earth
Goodman, Martin2017
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"Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, environmental laws need to be enforceable and enforced. Step forward a fresh breed of passionately purposeful environmental lawyers. They provide new rules to legislatures, see that they are enforced, and keep us informed. They tackle big business to ensure money flows into cultural change, because money is the grammar of business just as science is the grammar of nature. At the head of this new legal army stands James Thornton, who takes governments to court, and wins. And his client is the Earth. With Client Earth, we travel from Poland to Ghana, from Alaska to China, to see how citizens can use public interest law to protect their planet. Foundations and philanthropists support the law group ClientEarth because they see, plainly and brightly, that the law is a force all parties recognize. Lawyers who take the Earth as their client are exceptional and inspirational. They give us back our hope."--Publisher's description.
Main title:
Client Earth / Martin Goodman and James Thornton ; with a foreword by Brian Eno.
Author:
Imprint:
Melbourne : Scribe, 2017.
Collation:
xvi, 314 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The voice of many waters -- We are made of law -- Where the wild things are -- Building an ecological civilisation -- Leveraging Alaska -- The lifecycle of the law -- The lie of the land -- Why I do this work -- An air that kills -- The sheriff comes to town -- Leaving plenty more fish in the sea -- Setting up in Brussels -- Coals of fire -- How to start a public interest environmental group -- The forests of Africa -- Making laws work: implementation -- The dragon awakes -- Doing deals for the earth -- The judgement of Paris -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
9781925322040
Dewey class:
344.046
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
305631
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 344.046 THO | Available |