Don't miss co-author of Client Earth James Thornton present his book at Waterstones Brussels, Thursday 28 September at 7pm. James Thornton is the founder of ClientEarth, a law firm dedicated to defending the planet.
Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope.
Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The U.N.? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, environmental laws need to be enforeable and enforced. Step forward a fresh breed of passionately purposeful environmental lawyers. They provide new rules to legislatures, see that they are enforced, and keep us informed. They tackle big business to ensure money flows into cultural change, because money is the grammar of business just as science is the grammar of nature. At the head of this new legal army stands James Thornton, who takes governments to court, and wins. With his and co-author Martin Goodman's book Client Earth, we travel from Poland to Ghana, from Alaska to China, to see how citizens can use public interest law to protect their planet.
All are welcome to this free event.