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We Need an International Court for the Environment

Stephen Hockman, former chairman of the Bar Council | August 21, 2008

So far all global efforts to tackle climate change have lacked impact, legitimacy and transparency - the situation is dire and calls for more radical solutions. ++ It is crucial to create a global legal structure of control in the form of an international court for the environment. ++ Such a powerful and imperial body could provide the catalyst for a global consensus concerning the best solution to global warming and determine the fairest way to distribute the burdens that would accompany its implementation.

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