Very disappointing decision. Especially considering that the Paris accord to limit temperature rises to 1.5c is an international agreement; one would think that the UN would be the right jurisdiction to rule on it.
And would like the UN to tell us how we will stop Brasil from clearing hundreds of acres of rainforest a day without the threat of international retributions. A global crisis requires global measures.
But the court is certainly correct that effort must be made at the national level, but I am unsure why this negates the need for international pressures as well. We only have to look at our pray-to-the-Lord PM to understand the political dodging and hyperbole that goes on at the national level.
But this group of young people have the correct strategy. It is the children that must be filing these cases against the inaction of climate change as they are most affected.
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