With the COP26 Global Climate Conference held later this year, we will spend five episodes in this series to discuss pressing climate issues. In this episode, we are talking about taking the fossil fuel industry to court.
Last week, a government spokesperson said that in response to the climate crisis, we should freeze leftover bread and stop washing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. At the same time, the government has approved a new oil field in the North Sea, and we need to reforest throughout England to offset it.
Greenpeace threatens to take legal action against the new oil fields, and they are not the only ones trying to fight the climate crisis in court. So what legal challenges should we pay attention to? How do they work? How do they relate to the entire climate movement?
Tessa Khan, an international climate change and human rights lawyer and founder and director of Uplift, joined Ayeisha.
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