Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Fighting the climate crisis in the courts Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Tessa Khan By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 06 August 2021 With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending five episodes this series looking at pressing climate issues. In this episode we’re talking about taking the fossil fuel industry to court. Last week, a government spokesperson said that we should freeze leftover bread and stop rinsing dishes before we put them in the dishwasher to tackle the climate
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Weekly Economics Podcast: Fighting the climate crisis in the courts
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Tessa Khan
06 August 2021
With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending five episodes this series looking at pressing climate issues. In this episode we’re talking about taking the fossil fuel industry to court.
Last week, a government spokesperson said that we should freeze leftover bread and stop rinsing dishes before we put them in the dishwasher to tackle the climate crisis. Meanwhile, the government has approved a new oil field in the North Sea that we’d need to reforest the whole of England in order to offset.
Greenpeace has threatened the government with legal action over the new oil field, and they’re not the only ones trying to fight the climate crisis in the courts. So what legal challenges should we be paying attention to? How do they work? And what do they have to do with the climate movement at large?
Ayeisha is joined by Tessa Khan, international climate change and human rights lawyer, and founder and director of Uplift.
- Support the Stop Cambo and Paid to Pollute campaigns
- Read up on the successful lawsuit against Shell in the Hague
- Find out more about the ongoing case against RWE
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