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Lottie Limb

Paris wants to grant the River Seine legal personhood to better protect it from pollution

Paris’s Seine could be the next river granted legal personhood under plans announced by Mayor Anne Hidalgo yesterday. 

Paris City Council has called on Parliament to pass a law giving the River Seine rights, so that "an independent guardian authority” can defend it in court, according to yesterday’s resolution.

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