This page brings together global news 2012-2021, of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups concerning public interest law.
- Australian court finds government has duty to protect young people from climate crisis, May 27, 2021...theguardian.com
- Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030, May 26, 2021...theguardian.com
- Freeing the Future, May 2, 2021...Alternative Editorial, alternative.org.uk
- European Parliament urges support for making ecocide an international crime, January 21, 2021. Public consultation launches on legal definition...stopecocide.earth
2020[edit | edit source]
- Children's climate change case at the European Court of Human Rights: what's at stake? Dec 4, 2020...[1]
- International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction, Nov 30, 2020...[2]
- Portuguese children sue 33 countries over climate change at European court, Sep 3[3]
- A crime called "ecocide": how Macron in France, and the Danish Parliament, are willing to use laws (and referenda) to hit climate targets, Aug 10[4]
- Airline bailouts without climate conditions could be unlawful, May 5...[5]
- Dutch officials reveal measures to cut emissions after court ruling, Apr 24[6]
- Environmental Personhood: Recent Developments and the Road Ahead, Sanket Khandelwal, Apr 24[7]
- The government must abandon its fossil fuel power projects. If not, we’ll sue, George Monbiot, Mar 4[8]
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2018-2019[edit | edit source]
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- Dutch supreme court upholds landmark ruling demanding climate action, Dec 20, 2019...[1]
- Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis – report, Jul 4, 2019...[2]
- Waorani People Win Landmark Legal Victory Against Ecuadorian Government, Apr 26, 2019...[3]
- River granted full rights of legal personhood, Mar 7, 2019...
- Ohio city votes to give Lake Erie personhood status over algae blooms, Feb 28, 2019...[4]
- Demanding a 'right to repair', Jan 16, 2019...[5]
- Dutch appeals court upholds landmark climate change ruling, Oct 9, 2018...[6]
- Why the world is looking to the Philippines for climate justice, Feb 22, 2018...[7]
- Government air quality plan ruled ‘unlawful’, Feb 21, 2018...[8]
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2017[edit | edit source]
- New Zealand gives Mount Taranaki same legal rights as a person, Dec 22, 2017...[1]
- New Zealand creates special refugee visa for Pacific islanders affected by climate change, Dec 9, 2017...[2]
- I shut down an oil pipeline – because climate change is a ticking bomb, Emily Johnston, Nov 24, 2017...[3]
- Oakland Sue 5 Oil Giants for Climate Change Impacts, Sep 20...[4]
- The new "ecological civilization" will be born in China, according to the best environmental lawyer, Sep 23[5]
- How Community-Led 'Rights of Nature' Initiatives Are Protecting Ecosystems, Aug 31[6]
- Governments face 'wave of legal action' over climate change inaction as natural disasters worsen, activists warn, Aug 29...[7]
- Mapped: Climate change laws around the world, May 11[8]
- Cruel Intentions -- Opposition to Climate Change Response is Swiftly Becoming Illegal, Apr 12[9]
- New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being, Mar 16[10]
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2012-2016[edit | edit source]
- ICC widens remit to include environmental destruction cases, Sep 15, 2016...[1]
- The Strategic Value of Developing Law for the Commons, David Bollier, September 6, 2015...[2]
- "I consider this strategy memo as the catalyst for a new discussion – and, I hope, action. The vision is obviously too big for any one of us, or small group of us, to handle alone. But the push of a few dominos could start a chain-reaction of much greater scale – and as my review of commons-based legal initiatives suggests, there are a quite a few of us engaged in law-related commons advocacy. Can we take expand this work to a deeper, richer level?"
- Revolution Justified: Review, December 4, 2012...[3]
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