Youth Climate Courts: How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
108 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000508819
Related ISBNs:
9781003217640, 9781032109091, 9781032109060
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Thomas A. Kerns
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Teens, Outdoors and Nature, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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