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Lawyers call for international court for the environment
The Telegraph of London ^ | Nov. 28, 2008 | Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent

Posted on 11/30/2008 9:10:19 AM PST by ConservativeMind

...The first role of the new body would be to enforce international agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions set to be agreed next year.

But the court would also fine countries or companies that fail to protect endangered species or degrade the natural environment and enforce the "right to a healthy environment"...

...Mr Hockman said an international court will be needed to enforce and regulate any agreement.

"The time is now ripe to set this up and get it going," he said. "Its remit will be overall climate change and the need for better regulation of carbon emissions but at the same time the implementation and enforcement of international environmental agreements and instruments..."

...The court would include a convention on the right to a healthy environment and provide a higher body for individuals or non-governmental organisations to protest against an environmental injustice.

Mr Hockman said the court may be able to fine businesses or states but its main role will be in making "declaratory rulings" that influence and embarrass countries into upholding the law.

He said: "Of course regulations and sanctions alone cannot deliver a global solution to problems of climate change, but without such components the incentive for individual countries to address those problems – and to achieve solutions that are politically acceptable within their own jurisdictions – will be much reduced."

The court would be led by retired judges, climate change experts and public figures...

...an international court on the environment would influence public opinion which in turn would force Governments to take the environment seriously. He said: "If there are bodies around that can give definitive legal rulings that are accepted as fair and reasonable that has its own impact on public opinion..."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: environment; fascism; totalitarianism
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Liberalism is a mental disease.
1 posted on 11/30/2008 9:10:19 AM PST by ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind

How about an international court to fight Islamic jihad?

It’s frustrating, especially right after the Indian massacre, to have to listen to more about global warming when we have real immediate threats to all of us that need to be dealt with. Such as the threat of Jihad to all of us.


2 posted on 11/30/2008 9:12:14 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ConservativeMind

A lot of sleazebag “lawyers” are counting on getting REALLY rich with these phonyass “evironmental” hoaxes and scams.


3 posted on 11/30/2008 9:13:25 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Is there a way to stop these dummies?


4 posted on 11/30/2008 9:13:54 AM PST by Parmy
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To: ConservativeMind

How about having a court to enforce the US Constitution?


5 posted on 11/30/2008 9:14:19 AM PST by devere
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To: ConservativeMind

They could bite me.


6 posted on 11/30/2008 9:14:36 AM PST by wastedyears ("Al Gore is an apostle of arrogance." - Vaclav Klaus, Pres. of Czech Republic)
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To: ConservativeMind

Claire Wolfe.......phone call , line 3.


7 posted on 11/30/2008 9:14:37 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: ConservativeMind

And who pays for the current round of global cooling, the lawyers?


8 posted on 11/30/2008 9:14:41 AM PST by SouthTexas (Remember, it took a Jimmy Carter to bring us a Ronald Reagan!)
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To: ConservativeMind

This is what they have been working toward all along.


9 posted on 11/30/2008 9:15:32 AM PST by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I answer to no court but the United States courts.


10 posted on 11/30/2008 9:15:35 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Parmy

In theory at least, a windmill wouldn’t be that hard to blow up.....


11 posted on 11/30/2008 9:16:21 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: Parmy
Is there a way to stop these dummies?

The new fuhrer's handlers will use this as an early way for him to directly give away our sovereignty.

12 posted on 11/30/2008 9:18:13 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your power dry, folks)
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To: autumnraine
I answer to no court but the United States courts.

For the moment...

13 posted on 11/30/2008 9:19:36 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your power dry, folks)
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To: ConservativeMind

America is still 25% of the world’s economy; Obama may forget that little item and cave in to the extortionnists.


14 posted on 11/30/2008 9:19:51 AM PST by boxer21
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To: ConservativeMind
enforce the "right to a healthy environment"...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness, a Healthy Environment, a 'Living' Wage, the Right not to be Offended by Someone's Talk Radio Show, the Right to be Free of Fear from Mean Old Nasty Black Guns, the Right to Abortion On Demand, the Right to One Another's Hard Earned Wages, the Right to a Government Education, the Right to Health Care, the Right to a Convenient Mass Transit System, the Right to (redacted next 278 pages for brevity)...."

SEE, you NAYSAYERS???! It's right there in the Constitution!

15 posted on 11/30/2008 9:20:59 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proud author of abstract semi-religious dogmatic hoooey with a decidedly fring feel.)
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To: ConservativeMind

/mark


16 posted on 11/30/2008 9:22:56 AM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: ConservativeMind

We will have to rename our Supreme Court to Almost Supreme Court.

HaHaaaaaaaaaa


17 posted on 11/30/2008 9:25:53 AM PST by ully2
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To: ConservativeMind

Great - the power to enforce global land use agendas - The final nail in the coffin to the integrity (illusion) of private property ownership.


18 posted on 11/30/2008 9:26:43 AM PST by marsh2
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To: SouthTexas

Ya, that the ticket, have lawyers pay all the world wide fees.
I think they would support that.


19 posted on 11/30/2008 9:27:30 AM PST by ully2 (ully)
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To: marsh2

The right to fine countries...?

So a bunch of foreigners will impose a duty on the US government to collect a TAX on our citizens, to be paid to an overseas authority?

Isn’t that what the British Parliament tried to do?

“No taxation without representation!”


20 posted on 11/30/2008 9:28:44 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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