‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet?

“所有其他途径都已穷尽”:拯救地球的唯一途径只剩下法律行动了吗?

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2025-05-23

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Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take action By Samira Shackle. Read by Díana Bermudez. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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  • All other avenues have been exhausted.

  • Is legal action the only way to save the planet?

  • By Samira Shackle.

  • Read by Diana Bermudez.

  • In November 2024.

  • Monica Feriatinta, a veteran of UN tribunals and the International Criminal Court,

  • strode through a heavy black door into a Georgian building in London's August legal district for a meeting about a tree in Southend.

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  • the 150-year-old plane tree towers over a bus shelter in the centre of the Essex seaside town.

  • The council wanted to cut it down and residents were fighting back,