Climate Change and the Voiceless

Randall S. Abate has taught domestic and international environmental law courses at six US law schools and one university over the course of three decades. He also has delivered lectures on environmental and animal law in more than twenty countries on six continents. He has published six books and forty articles and book chapters on environmental and animal law topics.

'This book provides a compelling and robust review of the progress that has (and hasn't) been made in considering 'the voiceless – future generations, wildlife, and natural resources – in climate change law and policy. Whatever the reader thinks about personhood for other species and the Rights of Nature movement in general, this second edition provides an up-to-date and comprehensive international overview of how those tools are being deployed in an era of climate change. For readers in the United States in particular, the book offers an intriguing, hopeful, and sometimes surprising introduction to what has become possible, legally, in other parts of the world.' Robin Kundis Craig, Robert A. Schroeder Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas School of Law

• 1. An anthropogenic problem that requires an ecocentric solution; 2. Climate change litigation in domestic courts and human rights commissions; 3. Protection of future generations; 4. Legal personhood for wildlife: US and foreign domestic judicial developments 5. Rights of nature: US and foreign domestic perspectives; 6. Proposal for enhanced stewardship and rights-based protections for the voiceless, Index.