Kate Handley: Fighting Biodiversity Loss being an Environmental Lawyer | #077

Just Another Mindset Podcast

In this episode, we talk about Environmental law and justice. Kate shares which role nature plays in her life and why it is so crucial to fight for our declining biodiversity. You will learn about the interdependencies of nature with basically everything and we elaborate on particular cases that are made for planet earth. We discuss ways on how to reconnect business with nature and what power law has in regard to creating massive changes. Finally, we discuss the role of being a consumer and citizen and how you can influence biodiversity loss.
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Socials Kate
Website: https://biodiversitylaw.org/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-handley-85865a51/
Illuminem: https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoicesprofile/kate-handley
Socials Ismael
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvd4OFK_0rFnCsu7QhtK4PQ?sub_confirmation=1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ismael_von_der_gathen/
Website: http://Ismaelvondergathen.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismaelvondergathen/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Ismaelvondergathen
Links to topics and people discussed in this episode:
Muizenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muizenberg
Kate Handley - Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and business needs to care: https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/biodiversity-is-declining-at-an-unprecedented-rate-and-business-needs-to-care
ClientEarth v. Shell’s Board of Directors: http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-case/clientearth-v-shells-board-of-directors/
Cormac Cullinan: https://cullinans.co.za/who-we-are/our-people/cormac-cullinan/
Rights of nature in Ecuador: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_nature_in_Ecuador
The New Zealand river that became a legal person: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200319-the-new-zealand-river-that-became-a-legal-person
Centre for Environmental Rights: https://cer.org.za/
Allrise: https://allrise.org.za/
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro - Just Another Mindset Podcast
01:18 What we talked about today
02:06 Welcome Kate
02:47 Role of Nature
04:52 Justice
08:27 Biodiversity Law Center
12:39 Examples of cases
15:48 Becoming an Environmental Lawyer
21:00 Biodiversity is declining
26:26 Reconnecting business with nature
29:14 Transparency & Nature being a legal entity
36:57 The power of law
43:47 Power of Consumers & Citizens
48:31 Dependence on nature
50:41 Final questions
55:42 Outro - Just Another Mindset
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