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GlacierHub Protest in Jena, Germany in 2019 organized by Fridays for Future, one of the advocacy organizations represented in the court case. Source: Joachim Aspenlaub Blattboldt via Flickr. Last month, one of the most significant human rights climate court cases to date reached a resolution. Germany’s highest court, the Federal Court of Justice, ruled on April 29 that the country’s 2019 Climate Protection Act does not go far enough to safeguard the rights of the country’s youth. Siding w...

Belgium 14:10 15/03/2021 Citizens and activists donned traditional court dress and took to the streets at the weekend for climate crisis protests across Belgium. The activities were staged in the run-up to the first hearing in the Climate Case (L’Affaire Climat/Klimaatzaak), the court case that sees 60,000 citizens accusing the federal government of not doing enough to reach environmental goals. Protest activities were held around the country, with several taking place in Brussels. Some group...

Belgium 14:10 15/03/2021 Citizens and activists donned traditional court dress and took to the streets at the weekend for climate crisis protests across Belgium. The activities were staged in the run-up to the first hearing in the Climate Case (L’Affaire Climat/Klimaatzaak), the court case that sees 60,000 citizens accusing the federal government of not doing enough to reach environmental goals. Protest activities were held around the country, with several taking place in Brussels. Some group...

Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to do enough to meet its own commitments on the climate crisis and is legally responsible for the ensuing ecological damage.

Read time: 4 mins By Isabella Kaminski • Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 16:38 The French state has been found guilty of climate inaction in what campaigners have dubbed “the case of the century”.  Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to do enough to meet its own commitments on the climate crisis and is legally responsible for the ensuing ecological damage. France is the third European country where legal a...