気候変動を憂慮する若者のための訴訟入門 Youth Climate Courts : How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet

Kerns, Thomas A.

Routledge（2021/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 108 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032109060
• DDC分類 344.04633

Full Description

This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens and 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.

Tom Kerns shows how youth climate leaders can form their own local Youth Climate Court, with youth judges, youth prosecuting attorneys, and youth jury members, and put their local city or county government on trial for not meeting its human rights obligations. Kerns describes how a Youth Climate Court works, how to start one, what human rights are, what they require of local governments, and what governmental changes a Youth Climate Court can realistically hope to accomplish. The book offers young activists a brand new, user-friendly, cost-free, barrier-free, powerful tool for forcing local governments to come to terms with their obligation to protect the rights of their citizens with respect to the climate crisis.

This book offers a unique new tool to young climate activists hungry for genuinely effective ways to directly move governments to aggressively address the climate crisis.

Contents

0. Dear Reader 1. Introduction 2. How Does a Youth Climate Court Work? 3. What Are Human Rights? 4. Which Specific Human Rights? 5. CODA: Youth Interventions for an Addicted World