All other avenues have been exhausted…Is legal action the only way to save the planet?
— Nina de Ayala Parker (@NinaParker) April 9, 2025
A brilliant expose of the life of an international environmental lawyer: Monica Feria-Tinta ⬇️ https://t.co/s0VgwTs7IP
A vast number of actors are responsible for emissions, making it hard to establish legal responsibility, and often the worst harms occur in a different continent to the worst emissions. But in the last decade, a series of court cases around the world have sought to change the legal status quo. “It’s been a huge shift,” said Adam Weiss, chief programmes and impact officer at ClientEarth, an environmental law charity that has spearheaded this approach. “Judges now see the environmental issues we’re facing as existential, and have allowed the interpretation of human rights law to shift to grasp that.”
