He is known for prosecuting genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Now, Payam Akhavan, a Canadian international human rights lawyer, is turning his attention to climate change – and using a backchannel legal strategy at the UN to compel the world’s biggest polluters to act. Kamyar Razavi reports.
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Canadian lawyer’s legal strategy to compel the world’s biggest polluters to act
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