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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Isabella Kaminski

Stop locking young people out of legal process in climate cases, say experts

A woman carries her child through flood water
A woman carries her child through flood water after a typhoon battered parts of the Philippines last year. Photograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

Young climate activists should be able to fully take part in legal cases that affect them, say campaigners.

As governments and organisations around the world submit formal comments on climate breakdown to the world’s top courts, experts have condemned children’s inability to fully participate in the legal process in almost all jurisdictions.

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