UK lawyers' climate pledge reverberates around the world
2023
7
e447
1-2
ethics ; law ; climate change ; human rights ; rule of law
Law
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00105-5
English
Bibliogr.
"A commitment by some UK lawyers not to work on fossil fuel schemes has sparked an ethical debate within the profession. While some see the pledge as problematic, however, it could be taken up by peers overseas.
A pledge by lawyers not to work on coal, oil or gas projects because of their climate change impacts has reverberated around the UK and beyond. Since the pledge publication on 29th March 2023, more than 170 lawyers have committed to refuse work supporting new fossil fuel projects or that takes action against climate protestors exercising their right to peaceful protest. Prominent UK signatories to the ‘Declaration of Conscience' include Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, chair of the British Institute of Human Rights, and Farhana Yamin, one of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change..."
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