The UK's rivers are in crisis. That much is now widely accepted, and the sewage debate of the past few years has put it firmly in public view. What is less often said is that rivers have no voice at all in the decisions that determine their condition. Those decisions are made in rooms full of professionals, such as regulators, water companies, planners, consultants, all speaking a technical language, in working hours, to each other. It is a serious conversation conducted by serious people, and the river itself is absent from it.
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In October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed the much-awaited Resolution 48/13, which recognises the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
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This is a story about Lawyers for Nature’s work on what was variously known as the Dulwich Oaks or Save the Footbridge Oaks Campaign. I was contacted out of the blue by a member of the campaign who had heard about Lawyers for Nature and our work saving trees.
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Six years ago, 193 countries signed the Paris Agreement which aims at limiting the rise in global average temperature well below 2C above pre-industrial level, with an aspirational target of reaching 1.5C.
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