Thomas A. Kerns

Youth Climate Courts (eBook, ePUB)

How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens to mid-twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000508819
• Artikelnr.: 62652040

Autorenporträt

Tom Kerns is Director of Environment and Human Rights Advisory and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Seattle College, USA. His work brings human rights norms to bear on environmental issues, especially on the climate crisis. In 2015 he served on the drafting group for the international "Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change", and from 2014 until 2018 he co-organized the 2018 Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. He is co-editor, with Kathleen Dean Moore, of Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change (2021), a book based on the testimony and findings in that Tribunal.