Exploring Environmental Law, Activism, and the Rights of Nature

Analysis of the most recent report published by the IPCC.

We need ‘wild lawyers’, ‘lawyers for nature’ or ‘earth lawyers’: those committed to enacting and upholding the Rights of Nature through whatever legal avenues and means that are available.

A summary of our work and updates from 2021 at Lawyers for Nature.

This is a story about Lawyers for Nature’s work on what was variously known as the Dulwich Oaks or Save the Footbridge Oaks Campaign. I was contacted out of the blue by a member of the campaign who had heard about Lawyers for Nature and our work saving trees.

The joint declaration came as a shock amidst the ongoing technology war between D.C. and Beijing, which began under the Trump Administration.

Six years ago, 193 countries signed the Paris Agreement which aims at limiting the rise in global average temperature well below 2C above pre-industrial level, with an aspirational target of reaching 1.5C.

The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, the first major announcement of the COP26, commits 137 countries, including Brazil, China and Indonesia, to “halt and reverse” deforestation by 2030.

While the “Blue Zone” at COP26 filled up with delegates to the UNFCCC talks, the streets of Glasgow were flooded by climate activists from all over the world.

Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt group (SGMGB) are seeking pro bono legal representation at the Places for Everyone (P4E) Examination in Public (EiP) Hearings.