Care about the Climate Crisis? Support Legal Empowerment

Written By Rupert Bedford
An indigenous man sits during a protest to defend indigenous land and cultural rights that they say are threatened by the right-wing government of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

An indigenous man sits during a protest to defend indigenous land and cultural rights that they say are threatened by the right-wing government of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

It is essential that global action plans to tackle climate change include funding and protection for grassroots justice and land defenders

Author; Kaitlin Hansen, Namati, 19th September 2019

My Comment: I have been aware of Namati’s grassroots work for some time. Their work is a reminder that, to avoid massive injustice in the process of addressing climate change, top down innovative legal approaches to both the causes and consequences of climate change must be matched by innovation from the bottom up.


Rupert Bedford
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