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 ...
Yeah... wake up the 80% of our country that seems to be asleep or in denial of what is going on all around us.
Unfortunatly the filth that China (And India) spew into the air wind up here in the US.
Economic pressure (a Green Trrrif perhaps) will do more than any ‘internation court’.
Looks like direct action is needed.
Does this mean I can get sued when I drive my gas-guzzler?
Wow! What a redical idea that is. A court to enforce the U.S. Constitution you say?
Hummff! Obviously sir, you are not a progressive thinker.
Yes, the British did that and it didn’t work out well for them.
Barack Obama has said that this will be something he will do quickly after he becomes POTUS. I think he means it too.
The problem today is that this country is filled with idiots with high school diplomas. Public education has taught them that America is the problem for the world. That’s why they voted for Obama.
They think America owes it to the world to pay for the environment and everything else the U.N. can come up with.
No they are not. And we shouldn’t either. The American left is probably planning on being involved in the means process for emissions standards, so they will be exempt for a time. Just like here in America, they make the rules, but the rules don’t apply to them.
Notice the international body didn’t do this until Obama was elected. They knew Bush or a GOP successor would tell them to take a hike trying to collect any fees, or complying with supposed targets. Obama is already selling us out to the eco-nuts, God help us all.
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