https://apnews.com/5534fe18ac5352ba43c74c9a64d6a20a
"THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In a ruling hailed as an “immense victory
for climate justice,” the Netherlands’ top court ruled Friday in favor
of activists who have for years been seeking legal orders to force the
Dutch government into cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Activists in a packed chamber of the Supreme Court in The Hague erupted
into applause and cheers as Presiding Judge Kees Streefkerk rejected the
government’s appeal against earlier rulings ordering the government to
cut emissions by at least 25% by the end of 2020 from benchmark 1990 levels.
The Supreme Court upheld lower courts’ rulings that protection from the
potentially devastating effects of climate change was a human right and
that the government has a duty to protect its citizens."
Via Lisa Stranger.
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