Why the global climate response needs to lawyer up

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Vanessa Havard-Williams and Sir Nigel Knowles of the Legal Sector Alliance reveal how the sector is set to play an ever more important role in shaping the global low carbon transition

For a long time politicians turned to a cadre of scientists, economists, think tanks and NGOs, for help in devising international and national responses to the challenges of climate change. There were...

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