The law that could make climate change illegal

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:56:52 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200706-the-law-that-could-make-climate-change-illegal>

"The short-term cycles of government can be a real problem for climate
change. Even if climate goals are laid down in law, there can often be
few concrete measures to stop a succession of governments from taking
decisions that collectively end up with them being missed.

But a new and ambitious climate law recently passed in Denmark tries to
find a way around this problem, and some of the other common pitfalls of
climate laws. It makes Denmark one of a small number of countries
beginning to provide new blueprints of how government can genuinely
tackle climate change. Its law could turn out to be one of the closest
things yet to a law that would make climate change – or at least the
lack of effort to stop it – genuinely illegal."

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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