International Law: Environment

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Environment - International Law / When states don't behave

Episode 211022/ 22 Oct 2021

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SianCan governments be forced to take the tough steps needed to save the environment? This episode will show you how even lawmakers aren't bigger than the law.

What happens when a country breaks an agreement over the environment?

Can the law help?

And the important case that could change the way governments behave around the world...

But first, international laws are based on agreements between countries, but what happens when an influential country doesn't agree?

The

Amazon rainforest, in Brazil: the millions of trees maintain the atmosphere for all of us, all around the world.

But Jair

Bolsonaro, elected president of Brazil in 2018, had a different view. His government has put the needs of the economy ahead.

While he's been in power, much more of the forest has been cut down. So, what can the international community do?

A similar story in North America: 2017 and Donald Trump announces the USA was leaving the Paris Agreement, an agreement by 191 countries to cut their emissions.

America rejoined the agreement after Joe Biden became president.