EARTH IS OUR BUSINESS: CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME
Book ID/图书代码： 02890013B65298
English Summary/英文概要： Earth is our Business takes forward the argument of Polly Higgins’ first book, Eradicating Ecocide. This book proposes new Earth law, but it is also about something more than law: it advocates a new form of leadership which places the health and well-being of people and planet first. Polly Higgins shows how law can provide the tools and be a bridge to a new way of doing business. She argues, in fact, that Earth is the business of us all, not the exclusive preserve of the executives of the world’s top corporations. Expanding on the proposal in her first book to make Ecocide an international crime, this book sets out the institutional framework for sustainable development and international environmental governance. It proposes new rules of the game to transform our economies, energy supplies and political landscape in a radical, but practical, way. The implications of Polly Higgins’ proposal are far-reaching and profound. Like her award-winning first book, Earth is our Business is written for anyone who is engaging in the new and emerging discourse about the future of our planet. Instead of merely examining the problem, Earth is our Business sets out a solution: new rules of the game. They are, says Polly Higgins, a new set of laws based on the sacredness of all life. Included as appendices are a draft Ecocide Act, a proposal for revising World Bank investment rules, and the indictment used in the mock Ecocide Trial held in the UK Supreme Court in September 2011. Polly Higgins, barrister and international environmental lawyer, proposed to the United Nations in April 2010 that Ecocide be classed as the 5th Crime Against Peace alongside Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes of Aggression and War Crimes. In June 2012 world leaders will meet in Rio for the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Summit to discuss global governance mechanisms for creating a green economy. Making Ecocide a crime will be among the issues raised. Eradicating Ecocide won The People’s Book Prize for non-fiction in 2011. ’...the book isn’t another wild diatribe against business - rather it is an examination of international law and how environmental protection has somehow been left by the wayside ...[ It] asks everyone to re-examine the legal framework within which we are attempting to accomplish this, and provides business leaders with a golden opportunity of making it happen.’ corporate-eye.com
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《地球是我们的事业》需要参考波莉•希金斯的第一本书《消除生态灭绝》。这本书提出了新的地球法律，但同时也不仅仅是法律：它倡导新的领导，将人类和地球的健康和福祉放在第一位。波莉•希金斯展示了法律如何提供工具，并作为开展业务新方式的桥梁。事实上，地球是我们大家的业务，并不是世界顶级企业高管的专属。她扩展了第一本书中将生态灭绝定为国际犯罪的建议，这本书阐明了可持续发展和国际环境治理的体制框架。它提出了新的游戏规则来将我们的经济，能源供应和政治格局改造得彻底但实用。波利希金斯建议的影响是深远和深刻的。像她获奖的第一本书一样，《地球是我们的事业》是为那些对我们星球未来的新兴话语感兴趣的人所写。这本书不仅仅是研究问题，它还提出了解决方案：改变游戏规则。他们说，波莉•希金斯创造了一套新的基于所有生命的神圣法律。包括生态灭绝法的附录草稿，修订世界银行投资规则的建议，以及2011年9月在英国最高法院模拟生态灭绝审判中使用的起诉书。波莉•希金斯是国际环境法律师，2010年4月向联合国提出生态灭绝应该被归类为种族灭绝，危害人类罪，侵略罪和战争罪之后的反和平的第五罪。2012年6月世界各国领导人将在里约热内卢召开第20届地球峰会，来讨论全球治理机制和绿色经济的建立。让生态灭绝成为犯罪也将被讨论。《消除生态灭绝》在2011年获得了人民图书非小说类奖。这本书不是对商业的谩骂，而是对国际法的检查，以及保护环境是如何被莫名其妙地抛在脑后的。它要求每个人都重新审视法律框架，并为企业领袖提供促成这件事情的千载难逢的机会。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“在这个历史的紧要关头，我们设置问责企业的全球标准来杜绝那随处可见的有罪不罚的国际法律制度是至关重要的。波莉•希金斯阐明了如何做到这一点。”——比安卡•贾格尔，社会和人权倡导者"At this critical juncture in history, it is vital that we set global standards of accountability for corporations in order to put an end to the culture of impunity and double standards that pervade the international legal system. Polly Higgins illustrates how this can be achieved." --Bianca Jagger, social and human rights advocate
About the Author/作者介绍： 波莉•希金斯是国际环境法律师，2010年4月向联合国提出生态灭绝应该被归类为种族灭绝，危害人类罪，侵略罪和战争罪之后的反和平的第五罪。2012年6月世界各国领导人将在里约热内卢召开第20届地球峰会，来讨论全球治理机制和绿色经济的建立，让生态灭绝成为犯罪也在讨论问题之列。Polly Higgins barrister and international environmental lawyer, proposed to the United Nations in April 2010 that Ecocide be classed as the 5th Crime Against Peace alongside Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes of Aggression and War Crimes. In June 2012 world leaders will meet in Rio for the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Summit to discuss global governance mechanisms for creating a green economy. Making Ecocide a crime will be among the issues raised.
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