ClientEarth

If it wasn't this Dutch group, it would've been another organization.

Um, for example, ClientEarth, which is a major, uh, legal environmental organization based in the UK, had put out a scathing memo that had gone to all countries about New Zealand talking a big game internationally, but rolling back its own local climate pledges.

Bronwyn Hayward is concerned about the risk of brushing the case off, particularly in an election year when politicians are busy campaigning.

A US beef industry representative says there's ample opportunity for New Zealand beef.

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In the UK, Client Earth, which is an environmental legal firm, has been issuing some really critical statements about our position and that we are starting to advantage our own, especially our agriculture, but our products against other countries because we're not living up to our environmental pledges.

Now, why that matters is that Client Earth is headed by the former New Zealand UK High Commissioner, Laura Clark, who actually was the person that brokered our free trade agreement with the UK.

And at the same time, India and the USA are watching this case really closely for different reasons.

India is very competitive with dairy in particular, and Fonterra has been seen to get a protection in New Zealand under that Mike Smith-Fonterra case.

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next spring we will welcome the world to halifax for the our ocean conference hope to see as many of you there as possible uh canada's special envoy uh is here uh Diana.

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He's the founder and director of the organization Lawyers for Nature, which aims to reimagine and ultimately reshape our legal system to one that protects the inherent rights of the natural world.

And we also have Laura Clark, who is CEO of the legal and environmental charity ClientEarth, a group of lawyers and policy experts whose aim is to use the law to create systemic change in order to protect life on Earth.

And last but not least, Rosa Vasquez-Espinoza is joining us.

She's a biologist and conservationist born in Peru.

I spent 20 years as a diplomat, most recently as British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands.

And it was there that I really saw quite how existential climate change is, but also other environmental degradation in terms of protection of oceans and nature.

And so I decided to focus on those issues full time, and ClientEarth was the perfect place because the law has got this incredibly powerful ...

It's a p- very powerful lever for change, right? Because if you get the right law in place, you change the rules of the game.

that they recognize ecological limits, particularly atmospheric limits.

In Carbon Tracker, working with Client Earth, we've developed this idea called an atmospheric viability test.

All your reserves, is there any space in the atmosphere for your reserves once you develop? So there's so much work we need to do, not just on mobilizing capital, and we're doing a good job increasingly there, But we need to change the financial market architecture of disclosure systems and standards.

And I think we need a standard for nature.