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Young People Are Bringing Climate To Court. And Winning.

·1 hr 3 min·5 clips
Vishal Prasad reveals how the International Court of Justice delivered a climate ruling that left him and colleagues in a state of joyful shock.
This episode explores how young people are using the courts to fight for climate action, featuring interviews with activists and lawyers. It covers the International Court of Justice's landmark advisory opinion, youth-led lawsuits in the U.S., and personal stories of climate impacts in the Pacific Islands and Hawaii.

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Climate law gets human, and the stakes stay plain throughout.

Climate One treats climate as a courtroom fight as much as a scientific one. It starts with the EPA rollback and the endangerment finding that sits under so much federal climate policy, then moves into the way young people and their allies are pushing governments through the…

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Hear how youth advocates are pushing climate accountability into court.

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