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The Climate Question: Could giving nature rights help fight climate change?

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22/11/2021 GMT

Could giving nature rights help fight climate change?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, Could giving nature rights help fight climate change?

The rights and roles of the natural world

Giving nature legal rights. Can it help in the fight against climate change?

Around the world a growing number of rivers, mountains, nature reserves, even marshes have all been given legal rights. It’s an idea that’s being tested in courtrooms around the world. But to what extent might this help reduce the worst impacts of climate change and help us adapt to a warmer and wetter world?    
Presenters Kate Lamble and Neal Razzell are joined by: 
Natalia Greene , Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature 
John DX Lapid, reporter in the Philippines 
Liza Osorio, lawyer 
Jacinta Ruru, Professor of Law at the University of Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand 
Jan Darpo, Professor of Environmental Law, Uppsala University, Sweden 
 
Producer: Darin Graham 
Researcher: Natasha Fernandes 
Series producer: Ros Jones 
Editor: Emma Rippon 
Sound engineer: James Beard

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