Client earth
By: Martin Goodman and James Thornton ; with a foreword by Brian Eno
Contributors: Thornton, James, 1954- author
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781947534032
Subjects: Public interest law; Environmental law
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: The voice of many waters; title: We are made of law; title: Where the wild things are; title: Building an ecological civilisation; title: Leveraging Alaska; title: The lifecycle of the law; title: The lie of the land; title: Why I do this work; title: An air that kills; title: The sheriff comes to town; title: Leaving plenty more fish in the sea; title: Setting up in Brussels; title: Coals of fire; title: How to start a public interest environmental group; title: The forests of Africa; title: Making laws work: implementation; title: The dragon awakes; title: Doing deals for the earth; title: The judgement of Paris; title: Conclusion; title: Postscript: hope in the time of Trump.