Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize

Sarah Finch is among six recipients of the Goldman Environmental prize, awarded to honour grassroots activists around the world The woman whose campaigning set a legal precedent in the UK that stopped thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions has been awarded one of the world's most prestigious environmental prizes alongside five other women from around the globe.A supreme court ruling in a case brought by Sarah Finch has been cited in decisions against new oil concessions in the North Sea, the UK's first new deep coalmine for 30 years and even plans for new large-scale factory farms.Iroro Tanshi, a Nigerian conservation ecologist who launched a successful, community-led campaign to protect endangered bats from human induced wildfires;Borim Kim, a South Korean activist who won the continent's first successful youth-led climate litigation, finding her government's climate policy to be in violation of the rights of future generations;Alannah Acaq Hurley, a leader of the Yup'ik Indigenous people led a campaign that stopped what would have been the continent's largest open-pit mine, in Alaska's Bristol Bay region;Yuvelis Morales Blanco, a youth activist who mobilised others in her Afro-descendant community in Puerto Wilches against two drilling projects, preventing the introduction of commercial fracking into Colombia;Theonila Roka Matbob, of Papua New Guinea, whose campaign forced Rio Tinto, the world's second-largest mining company, to sign an agreement to address devastation caused by its Panguna mine. Continue reading...