'My job is to clean up the environment. China really wants to do that'

Environmental lawyer James Thornton says China's 'ecological civilisation' concept is the best response to the world's environmental crisis James Thornton's specialty is suing governments and corporations on behalf of his only client - the Earth - and he's very good at it. In his four decades of legal practice across three continents, he's never lost a case.Acknowledging this in 2009 the New Statesman named him one of the ten people likely to change the world; ClientEarth, the public interest environmental law firm he started in London in 2007 now employs 106 people. Continue reading...