We All Have a Right to a Future – An Encouragement
Efficient climate protection is a human right
Droughts, melting ice caps and floods are destroying many people’s habitats and livelihoods. Yet governments and corporations often turn out to be somewhere between sluggish and ignorant when it comes to taking climate protection measures. So, what can the individual – the climate victim – do? Lawyer Roda Verheyen argues decisively that we need to put existing law and the courts to use. Based on her own experiences and important international legal cases, she shows that the judiciary is an often underestimated force in matters of climate change. This is a book that encourages readers not to be afraid to use legal means in the fight against big climate offenders. Roda Verheyen puts a strong case for tackling the issues on a legal basis as they are ultimately also about human dignity, both now and in the future.
- Roda Verheyen is an internationally acclaimed lawyer
- Highly topical: how jurisdiction can defends climate victims
- With case examples from all over the world
Alexandra Endres, born in 1974, is a freelance journalist on climate and environmental issues. Prior to this, she was the politics, economics and society editor for Zeit Online.
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Roda Verheyen, born in 1972, is a lawyer and judge at the Hamburg Constitutional Court. She founded Green Legal Impact Germany e.V. and is a member of its executive board. She advises environmental organizations and was a member of the German delegation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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