Climate Change on Trial

08/04/2019 58 min
Climate Change on Trial

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Episode Synopsis

How is climate change posing new challenges for our legal systems, policy-making, and how is it is being addressed in our courtrooms. We will discuss recent cases in the Netherlands such as Urgenda and Milieudefensie’s lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell. To help us discuss this topics, we are joined by Prof. Dr. Joyeeta Gupta — co-chair of UN Environment’s Global Environmental Outlook-6 and Professor at the University of Amsterdam— and Freek Bersch — Spokesperson for Economy at Milieudefensie — will join us as we discuss these topics in a one-hour long interview, hosted on our stage at “Room for discussion”.

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