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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Michael Howie and Tom Place

Lord Lebedev backs landmark Nature’s Rights Bill in Lords debate

Lord Evgeny Lebedev speaking in the House of Lords - (House of Lords)

Lord Lebedev warned peers that mankind was “laying waste to the planet which is our only home” as he backed a landmark attempt to give nature new legal rights.

The Evening Standard proprietor intervened in the House of Lords on Friday as peers gave a Second Reading to Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle’s Nature’s Rights Bill, sending it on to a Committee of the Whole House for further scrutiny.

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