This yr marks the tenth anniversary of the Paris settlement. It’s also a decade since one other key second in local weather justice, when a state was ordered for the primary time to chop its carbon emissions sooner to guard its residents from local weather change. The Urgenda case, which was upheld by the Netherlands’ supreme courtroom in 2019, was one of many first rumblings of a wave of local weather litigation all over the world that campaigners say has resulted in a brand new authorized structure for local weather safety.
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