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Below are thoughts (links and snippets) on what you might do to COMPEL CLIMATE ACTION IN THE CORONAVIRUS RECOVERY through legal means
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A CAMPAIGN TO:"Use the government's own tools (Green Book, Valuations, Benefits/Costs analysis, etc) to help ensure there is no return to unsustainables" in THE POST-CORONAVIRUS ECONOMY?
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NEWS / ITEMS:
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Climate change: A new subject for the law | UNESCO | Mar 2019 https://en.unesco.org/courier/2019-3/climate-change-new-subject-law
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Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis - report | Climate change | The Guardian | 4 Jul 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/governments-and-firms-28-countries-sued-climate-crisis-report
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"We are seeing increasing public and business support for smart climate policies, including carbon tax proposals like the [bipartisan US bill] [..] introduced today [26-Sep-2019]" | said Andrew Steer, president of the World Resources Institute | https://www.wri.org/news/2019/09/statement-another-bipartisan-carbon-pricing-bill-introduced-house
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And selfishly pursuing particular interests risks “damaging the peaceful coexistence and development of future generations” | said Pope Francis, in his Easter Blessing. | https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-04/pope-easter-urbi-et-orbi-blessing.html
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The Netherlands Supreme Court, in the Urgenda case last year, ordered [in December 2019] the government to step up cuts in emissions.
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Heathrow third runway: UK government actions ruled "illegal" | Friends of the Earth | https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate-change/Heathrow-third-runway-UK-government-actions-ruled-illegal
A change in the wind? Heathrow expansion policy ruled unlawful in victory for climate campaigners | Hogan Lovells Publications | 16 March 2020 https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/a-change-in-the-wind-heathrow-expansion-policy-ruled-unlawful-in-victory-for-climate-campaigners
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Legal action launched against UK's HS2 project by Chris Packham. www.ft.com. | 3 Mar 2020 | He is seeking a judicial review ...
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‘Model statute’ to hold governments to account on climate change | Launched by International Bar Association | 18 February 2020 https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/model-statute-to-hold-governments-to-account-on-climate-change/5103130.article |
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FACTORS/CONSIDERATIONS:
- Climate : Paris Agreement
- Duty of care
- Town & Country / Planning Act
- Climate Change Act
- Stakeholders (future/children, remote/foreign).
- Driving forces (consumption, myopia, preferences, perverse incentives, population).
- Covid19 : recovery : shutdown : benefits [retain] (/costs) [avoid].
- Only 9% of Britons want to return to "normal" in post-coronavirus life | news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-only-9-of-britons-want-life-to-return-to-normal-once-lockdown-is-over-11974459 | survey human likes by thersa.org.uk.
- Health, fitness & well-being.
- UNDHR [?].
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ACTIONS [?]:
- Write to leaders;
- Blog;
- Request sensible (action) policy;
- Fund legal challenges;
- Donate to activist charities (eg FriendsOfTheEarth.org.uk);
- Check your (district;county;state;nation's) plan for compliance;
- Pay for a professional to check compliance;
- Join legal challenges;
- Campaign among your congregation, to do the above.
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A FEW HOPES FOR POST-CORONAVIRUS:
- Less traffic on the roads (and therefore less pollution), because of many more people working from home. This should be easier for people once schools are open again.
- Staggered (or flexible) working hours to spread traffic over a longer period, again reducing traffic (and perhaps also pollution).
- More nature and less cruelty.
- More sharing of cars, both for journeys to work and for school drop-offs.
- More walking and people travelling by bicycle, for work and leisure.
"How to make a resilient recovery" from Covid19, from the Committee for Climate Change, @theCCCuk:
- Climate investments for economic recovery + jobs.
- Promote positive, long-term, behaviours.
- Tackle climate and the ‘resilience deficit’ therein.
- Embed fairness.
- No lock-in of GHGs /or of increased risk.
- Incentives to cut emissions in taxation policies.
Green Recovery from COVID-19: A COP26 Universities Network Briefing:
- adopt +ve behaviours.
- #cleantech.
- education + training.
- fairer and more just #society.
- #harmony with nature.
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