People Places Planet Podcast by the Environmental Law Institute

Sep 22, 2023

From the minds of the team behind the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) out of Washington comes the People Places Planet Podcast!

This podcast is a must-listen for members with an interest in environmental protection as host Sarah Backer conducts cutting-edge, thought-provoking conversations about current issues central to environmental law and governance.

People Places Planet Podcast is one of several titles delivered by ELI to build upon their pivotal role in shaping the fields of environmental law, policy, and management, domestically and abroad, over the last 50 years.

Listen to the latest episode of the People Places Planet Podcast: ‘Not All Environmental Rights Amendments Are Created Equally: The Climate Science Behind Held v. Montana’

In this week’s ‘court watch’ episode of the People, Places, and Planet podcast, Host Sarah Backer and guests ELI Staff Attorney Jarryd Page and Science Fellow John Doherty, dive into how the youth-led constitutional climate case of Held v. State of Montana incorporated climate science and the implications that Judge Kathy Seeley’s decision might have for future climate litigation. Jarryd and John both work for ELI’s Climate Judiciary Project (CJP). CJP collaborates with leading national judicial education institutions to provide neutral, objective information to the judiciary about climate science and how it interacts with the law.  

Other podcasts delivered by ELI

Conversations with Environmental Disruptors

Welcome to Environmental Disruptors, a podcast series presented by the ELI Innovation Lab, an initiative of the Environmental Law Institute working to drive environmental performance. Environmental Disruptors, a new series from ELI’s People Places Planet Podcast, features a diverse set of innovators (including entrepreneurs and inventors and government officials), and shares stories of their work to disrupt systems to create a more equitable and sustainable world.

ELPAR Podcasts

Welcome to the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review’s (ELPAR) podcast series presented by the Environmental Law Institute and Vanderbilt University Law School. In this series, ELI staff and Vanderbilt University Law School students interview some of the country’s leading law professors about their creative legal and policy proposals for addressing a range of cutting edge environmental issues. Our goal is to make ideas from the legal literature more accessible to practitioners, policymakers, and the public.

About the Environmental Law Institute

Since 1969, ELI has played a pivotal role in shaping the fields of environmental law, policy, and management, domestically and abroad. We are an internationally recognized non-partisan research, publishing, and education centre working to strengthen environmental protection by improving law and governance worldwide. Find out more on the Environmental Law Institute’s website.

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