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Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind the hundreds of climate cases around the globe.

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Responsibilities Not Rights: A Tūhoe Perspective

When Tūhoe negotiated legal personhood for their homeland Te Urewera, the global rights of nature community cheered. But in this conversation about how the case connects to rights of nature overall and to the global push for climate action, Tamati Kruger, Tūhoe negotiator and chairman of the board that now oversees Te Urewera, explains that for Tūhoe it's about responsibilities—of people to protect the land and each other—not rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 31, 2022•17 min

S1 | Ep 4: Children of the Mist

In New Zealand, after decades of negotiating, Tuhoe people won personhood for their ancestral homeland Te Urewera. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 24, 2022•27 min

Unpacking the Landmark Los Cedros Ruling

Last episode we told the story of Ecuador's rights-of-nature journey, today Melissa Troutman and Joshua Pribanic, directors of Invisible Hand and co-founders of the journalism organization Public Herald, join to talk about what the landmark Los Cedros ruling means, not just for Ecuador but the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 17, 2022•24 min

S1 | Ep 3: The Cloud Forest v The Mine

Ecuador was the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) has not heard many cases in the decade or so since the law was added. The new Constitutional justices made a point of picking several cases to test rights of nature, and in 2021 handed down a major judgement about the future of one of the world's most biodiverse cloud forests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 10, 2022•31 min

Special Bonus: What West Virginia v EPA Means for Acting on Climate Change

A case argued at the Supreme Court this week—West Virginia v EPA—has potentially huge implications for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. NYU law professor Richard Revesz and Center for Biological Diversity attorney Jason Rylander join us to explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 03, 2022•24 min

S1 | Ep2: Who Speaks for the Trees?

A look at where rights of nature came from and how the concept has played out in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 24, 2022•35 min

S1 | Ep1: Manoomin v Minnesota

Welcome to our first season, The Forest for the Trees, a look at rights of nature cases all over the world. In this episode, we start with a case that's making its way through the courts right now, on behalf of wild rice, or manoomin in the Ojibwe language. The rights of manoomin case was originally filed in an effort to stop construction of the Line 3 pipeline. That pipeline has been built, but the case is still active, and it could have major implications for other pipeline fights. Learn more ...

Feb 17, 2022•35 min

Welcome to Damages

People don't bring massive lawsuits against their governments or some of the world's largest companies unless they're out of options and ready to fight like hell. That's exactly what's behind the hundreds of court cases seeking justice for the greatest crime against humanity: the climate crisis. Join us as we dig into the stories behind those cases. S1 coming February 17, 2022! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 19, 2022•3 min

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