{"id":62371,"date":"2024-03-06T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/mike-smith-maori-climate-activist-right-to-sue-companies"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:34:52","slug":"the-maori-climate-activist-breaking-legal-barriers-to-bring-corporate-giants-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62371","title":{"rendered":"The M\u0101ori climate activist breaking legal barriers to bring corporate giants to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark case, Mike Smith has won the right to sue seven of the country\u2019s biggest companies over their alleged contributions to climate change<\/p>\n<p>Mike Smith stands stock still in a khaki-coloured vest, posing for a photograph against dark foliage in the Auckland Domain gardens. He sets his face into a determined expression, raises his eyes to the horizon, and jokes he is creating the \u201cChe Guevara look\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know the one \u2013 where he is looking wistfully up?\u201d Smith says of the Cuban revolutionary\u2019s famous portrait.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/mike-smith-maori-climate-activist-right-to-sue-companies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark case, Mike Smith has won the right to sue seven of the country\u2019s biggest companies over their alleged contributions to climate changeMike Smith stands stock still in a khaki-coloured vest, posing for a photograph against dark foliage in t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62372,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371\/revisions\/62372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}