{"id":21504,"date":"2022-02-20T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=21504"},"modified":"2022-02-20T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:39:09","slug":"why-is-china-appointing-judges-to-combat-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/why-is-china-appointing-judges-to-combat-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is China appointing judges to combat climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-ted wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/james_k_thornton_why_is_china_appointing_judges_to_combat_climate_change\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Countdown Summit October 2021|Ted.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James K. Thornton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country&#8217;s growing effort to use the power of the courts to address environmental problems &#8212; a little-known story that indicates China could become a champion of legal action on climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the speaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/james_thornton\">James Thornton Eco-lawyer and authorSee speaker profile<\/a> James Thornton is an authority on the power of the law to create change and the founder of ClientEarth, a nonprofit law firm using advocacy and litigation to address the climate crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countdown Summit October 2021|Ted.com James K. Thornton Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country&#8217;s growing effort to use the power of the courts to&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/why-is-china-appointing-judges-to-combat-climate-change\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21506,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21504\/revisions\/21506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}