Projects Abroad support the urgent need for an International Court for the Environment

An International Court for the Environment is today, more than ever before, a most urgent requirement.

"After millions of words that have been written on the subject of climate change, we seem no closer to establishing that
'structure of control'"
Stephen Hockman QC

"The Kyoto Protocol is a failed experiment. Just as emissions should have been contracting, they were actually surging faster than anyone imagined possible. We now need a new climate agreement that will be efficient, equitable and above all effective. It must incorporate a global emissions cap, and yield substantial funding to safeguard biospheric carbon, finance climate adaptation in poor countries, and bring about a clean energy revolution worldwide. The Kyoto Protocol is inadequate to the task, and that is why we need a new treaty that really can deliver the goods."
Oliver Tickell, author of Kyoto 2

"With no meaningful mechanism to achieve compliance with Kyoto, the danger of further drift and non-compliance is critical. That is why this proposal for a World Environment Court is so timely."
Nigel Griffiths MP

The need for institutional change, and especially for an International Court for the Environment, is therefore more pressing now than any other time in our history.

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"[Stephen Hockman QC's] proposal for the world environment court is an interesting one. The first stage is persuading all countries to accept binding targets. That will be our priority in the post-2012 negotiations, and we will ally to that our proposal that funding be made available to developing countries to persuade them that it is in their interests to sign up to those agreements. His proposal is one that will be taken into account in terms of discussions about how we make those agreements binding"

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister

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