Litigating the climate emergency how human rights, courts, and legal mobilization can bolster climate action

"As the climate crisis intensifies and becomes acutely visible, promising responses have been developed by scientists, advocates, and scholars around the world. Mobilizations such as #FridaysforFuture and Extinction Rebellion are converging with Indigenous peoples' movements and other soci...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rodríguez Garavito, César (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia, New Delhi, India, Singapore Cambridge University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Globalization and human rights
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Zusammenfassung:"As the climate crisis intensifies and becomes acutely visible, promising responses have been developed by scientists, advocates, and scholars around the world. Mobilizations such as #FridaysforFuture and Extinction Rebellion are converging with Indigenous peoples' movements and other social justice movements to convey the urgency and the scale needed for climate action. Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, informed by developments in attribution science, establish more precise links between greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events, and human impacts. In the meantime, collaborations between scientists and journalists have drawn the broader public's attention to detailed information about the magnitude of planet-warming emissions associated with the activities of major fossil fuel companies"--
Beschreibung:xxi, 407 Seiten
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ISBN:9781009098779
978-1-009-09877-9