[Vision2020] Clarification Re: 12-20-19 The Guardian "Dutch supreme court upholds landmark ruling demanding climate action"

[Ted Moffett]

The quote at the top of this post below is actually from David Boyd, the UN
special rapporteur on human rights and the environment.  Greta Thunberg
posted this quote on her Twitter account, as the website shows.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 4:13 PM Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

"The most important climate change court decision in the world so far,
> confirming that human rights are jeopardised by the climate emergency and
> that wealthy nations are legally obligated to achieve rapid and substantial
> emission reductions."
>
>
> Greta Thunberg
> https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1208091604994711553
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> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/dutch-supreme-court-upholds-landmark-ruling-demanding-climate-action?CMP=share_btn_tw
>
>
> Court rules Dutch government has duty to protect citizens’ rights in face
> of climate change
>
> The Netherlands’ supreme court has upheld a ruling ordering the country’s
> government to do much more to cut carbon emissions, after a six-year fight
> for climate justice.
>
>
> The court ruled that the government had explicit duties to protect its
> citizens’ human rights in the face of climate change and must reduce
> emissions by at least 25% compared with 1990 levels by the end of 2020.
>
> The non-profit Urgenda Foundation, which brought the case, welcomed the
> “groundbreaking” judgment. The original
> <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/24/dutch-government-ordered-cut-carbon-emissions-landmark-ruling> judgment
> in 2015 was seen as a landmark in the then nascent field of climate
> litigation, and inspired similar cases across the world, from Pakistan to
> New Zealand.
>
> David Boyd, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment,
> said it was “the most important climate change court decision in the world
> so far, confirming that human rights are jeopardised by the climate
> emergency and that wealthy nations are legally obligated to achieve rapid
> and substantial emission reductions.”
>
> The Dutch government had previously said it would comply with the
> substance of the ruling, but it repeatedly appealed
> <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/dutch-appeals-court-upholds-landmark-climate-change-ruling> over
> the legal basis for the decision. The latest national statistics show the
> Netherlands is very unlikely to meet the 2020 emissions target.
>
> The Netherlands <https://www.theguardian.com/world/netherlands> passed
> its first piece of national climate legislation in 2018, it has published a
> more ambitious carbon plan for 2030, and it is closing its first coal plant
> next year.
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> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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