Monday, May 4, 2015

New Lawsuit in Netherlands to Help the Environment

There's an interesting new lawsuit in the Netherlands. An environment rights activist and lawyer has filed a lawsuit against her government, claiming that her country's carbon emissions are negatively causing climate change and that impacts her as a citizen and causing damages to her as a citizen. If she wins, this will cause a domino effect of litigation across the world, using the courts as a vehicle into forcing governments to confront carbon emissions and climate change. What do you think this? (About using the courts in this way; about carbon emissions; about climate change, etc.) Has your climate changed lately and if so, how and why? Do you have the power to do anything about it? How?

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