As part of our environmental justice theme week in the countdown to Climate Week NYC, our India Executive Director Divya Sharma spoke with Laura Clarke, CEO of ClientEarth, an environmental charity using the law to create powerful change that protects life on Earth.
Divya and Laura discussed:
- What environmental justice means and why it is such a critical issue today. In India specifically, the Supreme Court recently ruled that that people have a right to be free from the adverse effects of climate change.
- How the law can help advance environmental justice with examples such as the Torres Strait climate claimants who won their historic human rights fight against the Australian Government.
- Laura's aspirations for Climate Week NYC with ClientEarth pushing for more countries to adopt national framework climate laws which provide that legal framework required to deliver on ambitious nationally determined contributions (the so-called NDCs).