The Dutch news as brought by The Guardian
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/dutch-appeals-court-upholds-landmark-climate-change-ruling>
If you are interested in the line of reasoning of the court, please watch the
spoken verdict (summary) with English subtitles
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1097&v=aY7eLKJWLxQ>. Worth
your time I think.
Op wo 10 okt. 2018 om 09:18 schreef Frank <wijsmuller@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Exactly. Those who wish to do nothing could be the lemmings of human kind.
> First the change itself was denied, now the human part in it. Shooting the
> messenger (aka the scientists) as default strategy.
>
> Some interesting news <http://www.urgenda.nl/en/themas/climate-case/>
> from the Netherlands yesterday:
>
> "*The 2015 Urgenda Climate Case against the Dutch Government was the
> first in the world in which citizens held their government accountable for
> contributing to dangerous climate change. On 24 June 2015, the District
> Court of The Hague ruled the government must cut its greenhouse gas
> emissions by at least 25% by the end of 2020 (compared to 1990 levels). The
> ruling required the government to immediately take more effective action on
> climate change.*
>
> The case, which was brought on behalf of 886 Dutch citizens, made climate
> change a major political and social issue in the Netherlands and
> transformed domestic climate change policy. It inspired climate change
> cases in Belgium, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, Switzerland and the US.
> In September 2015, despite calls from leading scientists, lawyers,
> citizens, companies and the 886 co-plaintiffs for it to accept the
> decision, the Dutch government decided to appeal the judgment. It made this
> decision even though it is taking steps to meet the target set by the
> Court. The appeal was heard at the Hague Court of Appeal on 28 May 2018. On
> 9 October 2018, the Hague Court of Appeal decided to uphold the 2015 court
> decision. In other words Urgenda won again."
>
>
>
> Op wo 10 okt. 2018 om 07:23 schreef Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> This is the excuse used by those who wish to do nothing. I am 57, so I
>> will most likely be dead before the worst consequences of global warming
>> occur, but I care about the world in which my children and their children
>> will live.
>>
>
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