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Past Event
Our Constitution, Our Climate, Our Kids: Is There a Right not to Be Harmed by Climate Change?
Climate change has an immediate, disproportionate effect on our youth, present and future generations. As with the civil rights movement, young people are turning to courts and regulatory bodies to require governments to implement plans to phase out pollution in line with science. The question is this: Do present and future generations have a constitutional right to be protected from invasive and destructive environmental harm, danger and damage?
MLF Organizer
Ann Clark
Notes
MLF: Environment & Natural Resources
February 9, 2017
The Commonwealth Club of California
555 Post St.
San Francisco, 94131
United States
Speakers
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Philip Gregory
Partner, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP
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Tia Hatton
Youth Plaintiff in Constitutional and Public Trust Case
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Julia Olson
Executive Director, Our Children's Trust