http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 23 May 2013 14:19:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/the-earth%e2%80%99s-advocate-defending-our-environment/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/the-earth%e2%80%99s-advocate-defending-our-environment/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:40 +0000 Simon Day http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25172 In 1992 the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro designed international legal protocol for the protection of the environment. Twenty years later, British barrister Polly Higgins believes those laws have failed.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/the-earth%e2%80%99s-advocate-defending-our-environment/feed/ 3