Climate Change Debate | Prof. Bruce Pardy | Opposition

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The Motion: This House Believes The West Has No Right to Impose Environmental Standards on Developing Countries

Prof. Bruce Pardy closes the case for the opposition, as the final speaker of six in the debate.

Professor of Environmental Law at Queen’s University, Canada. A former litigation lawyer, he has frequently criticised the Kyoto Protocol in academic journals, and recently published a book entitled Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule of Law.

The motion was defeated.

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