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International environmental justice court needed, summit participants say

By STEPHEN HOLZER

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COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AlertNet) - A "people's agreement" reached at an alternative climate change summit this week calls for the creation of an international "climate and environmental justice" court with binding legal power to sanction those who contribute in unwarranted ways to climate change.

Such a body is needed in the short term to fight again the impunity enjoyed by major emitters of climate-changing gases, said experts and activists at the People's World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights, held this week in Cochabamba.

"I think this court is completely feasible. Not only that, it is urgent and indispensable," said Miguel D'Escoto, a former president of the United Nations.  

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Yes, this is just what we need--the "People's World Conference" (elected by no one) on "Mother Earth Rights". 


You can read the whole article at http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/60167/2010/03/23-103255-1.htm.

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).

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