Environment, nuclear weapons and the law

2022-02-12

The legal system offers powerful tools to limit environmental destruction, with some excellent examples listed in this Guardian story. And yet there is much more that can be done. Nuclear weapons remain a dire threat while climate change marches on, largely unchecked by the inadequate responses thrown at it. Some countries such as Australia do not have a constitutional bill of rights, depriving citizens of a key platform. The alternative is a patchwork of legislation that makes the job harder. In this...

The legal system offers powerful tools to limit environmental destruction, with some excellent examples listed in this Guardian story.

And yet there is much more that can be done. Nuclear weapons remain a dire threat while climate change marches on, largely unchecked by the inadequate responses thrown at it.

Some countries such as Australia do not have a constitutional bill of rights, depriving citizens of a key platform. The alternative is a patchwork of legislation that makes the job harder.

In this interview we speak to the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Interview by Rod as part of the series with authors in our book Sustainability and the New Economics.

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