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- The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has started to hear the large-scale climate case of six young people and children from Portugal, who are trying to hold the governments of 32 European countries to account for failing to act on climate change.
The young people, supported by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), allege the countries - which include Germany, the UK, Russia and Portugal - have not enacted the emission cuts needed to protect their futures. The case focuses on countries whose policies lawyers argue are too weak to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) Paris Agreement goal. They cite the country ratings of the Climate Action Tracker. The plaintiffs range from age 11 to 24 and come from Lisbon and Leiria in Portugal. The case states climate change poses a rising threat to the six young people's lives and their physical and mental well-being. It invokes human rights arguments - including the right to life, a home and to family - as well as claiming discrimination. "Our generation is living in an age of great danger and uncertainty, so our voice must be heard," Andre Oliveira told DW in 2020 when the case was initially filed with the ECHR. Andre is now 15.
"It's clearly not the case that young people are the only people vulnerable to the effects of climate change," said Gerry Liston, a senior lawyer at GLAN, in 2020. "But because they stand to endure the worst impacts, we're saying the effects of failing to adequately address greenhouse gas emissions amounts to unlawful discrimination on the grounds of age." Andre added that the case wasn't about "finger pointing" but giving all the governments being brought to court "a chance to act better and faster." While there are numerous recent and ongoing climate cases, many also involving young plaintiffs, this is the first of its kind to be brought to Strasbourg. The international court, set up in 1959, deals with alleged violations of civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. The pressing need for significant and wide-scale action among many large emitters warranted going directly to Strasbourg, rather than through domestic courts which is more common, explains Liston. According to GLAN, if successful, the 32 countries would be legally bound to tackle overseas contributions to climate change, including that of multinational companies, as well as ramping up emissions cuts.
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European representatives, it's crucial that you visit places like Serra da Estrela in Portugal, including the natural parks, to witness the dire situation firsthand. The mismanagement, corruption, and inappropriate use of funds are not only jeopardizing the environment but also undermining the very essence of these natural treasures.
Even within the natural parks, it's disheartening to see irresponsible actions, such as the planting of fire-prone species like eucalyptus and pine, instead of focusing on native tree species. The Portuguese state's oversight in these areas is questionable at best.
We urgently need your intervention to ensure that European funds are used responsibly and effectively to protect our natural parks and preserve the unique ecosystems they contain. Please take action now to address these pressing issues. Just go there to see what is happening.
The same people that fly in private jets, ride in limos and have AC
The discrimination argument seems powerful because people of one generation aren’t only failing to act, they are personally profiting from carbon industries and a carbon economy. By bringing future consumption forward to the present and amplifying the impact of the climate, while postponing costs into the future they have also guaranteed significant harm, far worse than today, or what would otherwise be expected. Defendants in such a case should probably not be states, but the middle and upper class of the generation born after WW2, in Europe, America and China. We can identity the perpetrators by name. They are literally appropriating wealth, while exporting pollution and its effects, both without consent or consequence. They can reasonably guarantee to avoid any consequences by being deceased. Of course, such a generational argument has not been made in a global court before, but the same principle applies to public debt. Yet, that would be a poor analog, climate is a permanent alternation of the conditions of life on earth - at a speed and direction that will be ghastly and cause harm far exceeding any other consideration. Plus future generations, as well as nonhuman animals, would have have a strong stake in such a legal grievance, despite lacking standing. I hope they are given consideration.
First of, animals do not have rights as they do not have obligations either. Its kind of hard to force a dog to adhere to the social contract, don't you think? Secondly, your arguments are not legal arguments, ie disspassoniate arguments, but overly sentimental „revolutionary” rants: lets kill the rich dig up their graves and make them pay. Im willing to bet you anything that the 1% in fact pollute much less then the 99%. Also, it is not at all a generational problem, because young people consume MUCH more, statistically, then previous generations did. Do you think that when you order the new eco-friendly bag to replace the one you got 1 month ago, that just magically appears somewhere in the forest and the flies itself to your doorstep? In fact, most young people nowadays have a much much larger carbon footprint than their predecessors did, but of course hoarding a lot of children in front of a court to complain about how they have been robbed of their life blah blah has a sentimental effect on most people and the court will be put into a difficult position. Maybe you weren't paying attention, but actually their lawsuit never ever had any chance of succeeding, since they did not fulfill the first requisite for appealing to the ECHR: to use all possible national legal remedies. I do think that govts should be held responsible for failing or wilfully breaching obligations they took upon themselves in the Paris treaty. But this whole appeal was not much more than a scharade.
😂 China and India at the moment
把你们的日常消费降低到中国人和印度人的平均水平，再出来指责别人。
@@jt-tttit's about industries. China and America are giant polluters they should get punished for it, so should everyone else
I think this newscaster should start an ASMR channel.
Blame the drug producers and dealers. Never the consumers. USA and Russia, both producers and exporters of gaz and oil, are to blame, patenting the electrical ways to block electrical cars to exist to sell their oil . Not EU members... ;)
Britain out of ECHR ...and raise voting age to 40.
Britain needs to quit the ECHR as soon as possible.
What a glorious waste of time and money to give people a sense they're actually doing something useful when the predicament has no solution. Nature Bats Last.
Is this the crux of where our habitable futures rely in?
What a joke 😅
This is a complex issue. Just like Germany, it is not easy when it is stripped of all nuclear power; the energy transition is difficult and the renewable energy is not always stable and it is more expensive, which causes a rise in production cost without government subsidies, which means manufacturers may move away from the country, cause a loss of job which means a loss of tax revenues and a bigger debt to GDP ratio and the vicious cycle continues.
You can't simply say shut everything down, they themselves are living in an environment where everything provided to them has a carbon price. Unfortunately, there is still no breakthrough from nuclear fusion tech.
It gets more complex when waters are muddied and when laws and markets left untouched from reform
Yeah, that is exactly why a lawsuit filed by a bunch children is a farce. They have no idea about how the real economy works, it cant be all rainbows and unicorns.
All about the climate ...........The new big "big tech" of activation
Poor old Germany and Italy
I support this type of activism. But, blocking traffic is criminal which makes the public angry.
This needs to have people from the UK as well. Especially after the recent decisions by our PM.
Yeah decisions that they had no choice on.
hahahha drilling more oil cos our government know its lies climate change
This is a joke
It's crazy to me that there's still people that don't believe in climate change. I'm from Costa Rica and I remember when it used to rain almost every day in our rain season. Now we can have one or two weeks without rain. The heat is unbearable, to that point that we had to install AC in the house. Just watch the news. If you don't want to help or do something about it, that's your right, but at least don't stand on the way of activists and stop wasting time criticizing their work. It is ridiculous. Billionaires should be paying extra if their companies pollute above x amount.
I believe in climate change, winter, spring, summer, fall.
You live in costa rica, what did you expect?
Just because you saved up money to buy AC does not mean the temps have changed.
I just looked up your average rainfall and temps nothing has changed for 50 years.
You need to turn off that news you watch and live in reality.
Deceived is what you are.
Too much people living in South America without pollution standards plus cutting of the rainforest are prolly big contributors to climate change , in the West most big companys have strict emission rules plus there have been big steps taken in energy efficiency
@@cnfuzz you're talking about Brazil. Let's be honest please, China, the US, India and Russia hold the top spots as the countries that generate the most pollution. China would literally destroy the world if that meant more profit.
We've had the weirdest weather this yr in N.I New Zealand with 2 Cyclones, Several Atmospheric rivers the size of the Amazon, Hot snaps, cold snaps,gusts, raining heavily right now but many are worried about the coming fire season.
Your AC is causing climate change
Forgot the nerherlands
What did we do?
I'm just salty I haven't thought of that first. Haha what a nice way to leach of people.
Well Its Better Late Then Not At All, Goodluck And Godbless.
It’s ruled failure to reduce fossil fuel emissions is a violation of human rights
Yet those who go to lengths to persuade governments to take action in this respect are arrested for breaches of the law
Cake and eat it stuff again
In a normal world these sick freaks would be laughed out of the court and imprisoned if they ever spoke of it again.
Uh no? How would that be normal in a democracy?
How does caring about the future make somebody a "sick freak"? And if simply talking about climate change deserves a prison sentence, who is going to sentence the entire worldwide scientific community?
@@Dacicus-lz9gr What you mean is "You can care about the future all you want, just don't upset the people who are actively contributing to its destruction or they might think you have a mental illness".
Blame the drug producers and dealers. Never the consumers. USA and Russia, both producers and exporters of gaz and oil, are to blame, patenting the electrical ways to block electrical cars to exist to sell their oil . Not EU members... ;)
If the Climate freaks "really" cared about everybody else and the planet they'd all commit seppuku in unison.
Fun fact Real data from day 1:
The U$A population accounts for only 5% of the world's population, but account for 25% of the world's total carbon emissions .
Which brings us to today's brutal climate.
😅But blame the developing countries and talk about every human are equal.
This is an intentionally misleading statement from a CCP-funded user. Yes, the USA accounts for 25% of all carbon emissions *ever* emitted (one source from Oct 2022 said 20%, and the number continues to drop as time passes), including 100+ years ago when most nations were not industrially developed at all (notably, neither Russia nor China were industrialized until the 1930's and 50's, respectively). *However,* today the US accounts for 14% of annual emissions and dropping by every year, while China accounts for 29% and is ever-increasing. And nobody in the west blames developing countries for climate change, so stop selling that BS. Let me guess, you also consider China a "developing country," while maintaining a *space station* and the 2nd largest economy in the world?
@@yayhandles Several countries, including some developing countries, and finance institutions have signed up to a pledge to end public support for international fossil fuel projects. The same countries will be able to continue to develop fossil fuels at home. The US has at least 24 pending fossil fuel projects representing more than 1.6 gigatons of potential greenhouse gas emissions, while the UK is licensing new oil and gas fields in the North Sea.
The CGD research used World Bank data of per capita carbon emissions for each country, spread out over a year, to calculate the point at which a British or US citizen’s energy use surpassed that of someone living in a low- or middle-income country. About 940 million people, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, do not have access to electricity.
African leaders, including President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, who has committed Nigeria to net zero by 2060, and Lazarus Chakwera, the president of Malawi, have spoken out about their countries’ need to transition to net zero via natural gas.
The Energy for Growth Hub, an international research network, estimates that if 48 countries in Africa, excluding South Africa and several north African nations, tripled their electricity consumption through use of natural gas, the resulting carbon emissions would be less than 1% of the global total.
@@happymelon7129 Nice attempt to distract with a big block of non-information. You literally just copy and pasted an article, which does not counter anything that I said whatsoever. The US's carbon emissions drop every year, China's go up every year, China's annual emissions are over double that of the US, and the gap is ever-widening. You countered none of that. In fact, if anything, your new post just reinforces what I said about industrial development relative to statistical skewing.
Fun fact 14 percent your full of
"Globally, the five countries contributing the most to greenhouse gas emissions are China (33%), the United States (13%)"
This is 2022 data from Greenly.
please find the UK guilty it will be just one other reason to leave the ECHR
Direct air capture now
More like, stop all non-essencial industry now, stop making personal cars, stop air travel, etc...
Direct air capture is a joke. You have to release more CO2 into the air (from burning fossile fuels or making solar panels) for power than you can capture with that energy. Then once you have the CO2 you still need to do something with it like boosting crop yield which releases it right back into the environment or pump it underground and hope there is no leak anywhere.
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If western people uphold every human on earth have the equal rights.
Carbon Emissions per capita:
Canada 18.51
Australia 17.10
United States 15.52
Russia 11.44
China 7.38
India 1.91
Source: worldometers...
Germany industrial dxed on the day NStrxam bomb by the U$A.
Disillusioned children egged on by activists adults. It’s not kind to lie to children and it’s not good policy to implement what these activists want.
"Am I out of touch, no it's the groomed children who are wrong"
yeah only your echo chamber is gonna agree with you on that one
The funny thing is, that those same adults who put these posterchildren forward knew from the get-go that their appeal has absolutely zero chance, since they failed to fulfill the first condition for appealing to the ECHR. A total farce, in short.
They should take themselves to court
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Nuclear fallout could be a solution, so it's already on the table. Vaccination is another issue at stake. The only difference is one option without an explicit individual target and another with an explicit individual target. In this case, I am in favor of the first option, where no one will laugh or cry.
The only thing left is for you to accuse yourself, demonize and offer yourself to your own judgement.
Guys to stop climate change completely, time has already passed. Now it's damage mitigation, but looking at current plans what has already been approved, that also won't happen. The priority now is to secure our food supply in a different climate. If we can get that done, maybe it will be ok.
Chicken Little running around again. 20 years ago VP Algore said we had only 10 years before the world would become toast. Still waiting.
brainwashed
based.
My oil my choice
This European Court The US "Supreme" Court
Someone tell the boomers that climate change action is cheaper than letting the consequences happen. Oh wait they don’t have the skills to critically engage with information. 😂
If you feel that way, why don't you ban all of your petroleum?
Nah, it would be cheaper to invest to mitigate the effects on our economies and populations.
@@Wolfcamp555 because its about quick change not ridiculous instant political points like you make
If petroleum was 100% cut off of you right now, would you be better off?
@@joso7228
I'm from Texas, your LNG supplier.
You and I have something in common.
We both want to leave YOUR LNG in the ground.
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No not actvists
Yeah, I thought about opening my own farm, but its a long and complicated process. Im just investing in Cannafarm ltd farms and earning every day
None of this matters unless China lowers their pollution as well.
If Europe stops buying cheap consumer goods manufactured in China, then China will have to cut down production, thus lower emissions. Of course you can argue that country X will not do the same, but somebody has to start.
You know that china is pretty much leading the clean energy Revolution all alone? Who produces literally all the solar panels? Who has the only large economy with a rapidly expanding Clean Energy sector?
@@patrickstar686 Who buys all the solar panels?
A large portion is installed in Chinese cause you know... they make all of them.
Didn't even mention china being the largest electric car producer by far. Or how china basically fixed air pollution in it's largest cities...
@@patrickstar686 Pollution and clean energy sector are two completely different things. China adds 52 Gw of coal-plants in the near future on the already 243 Gw existing. A thumb of rule 1Gw = equals one large power plant. The paradox is obvious. Manufactoring products in the green sector automatically offset ALL renewable achievments in other parts of the world by far.
COP27 : Developed countries should fulfill their $100 billion Climate Change finance promise as soon as possible
G7 nations consistently breaking promises for climate finance
23 Jun 2022 - At COP15 in 2009, the G7 and other rich countries promised to provide "scaled-up, new and additional finance" to the value of $100 billion a year by 2020 to support the global South with their climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts.
You can give your money to the cult, i will not.
You are a deceived human being, without knowledge of God and his creation.
By God's word the earth was made, and by God's word the earth is sustained.
I will not be apart of your cult.
You are an affront to God Himself.
Blame the drug producers and dealers. Never the consumers. USA and Russia, both producers and exporters of gaz and oil, are to blame, patenting the electrical ways to block electrical cars to exist to sell their oil . Not EU members... ;)
@@Dacicus-lz9gr Fun fact Real data from day 1:
The U$A population accounts for only 5% of the world's population, but account for 25% of the world's total carbon emissions .
Which brings us to today's brutal climate.
😅But blame the developing countries and talk about every human are equal.
I understand taking countries to court but the damage is done. We are doomed
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Support and invest in those who actually tackling the issue productively like engineers and scientists instead of giving money to the activists.
All types of 'soldiers' and skills are needed.
Why has Europe turned into circus whats is happening???
The capitalists have consolidated basically all the political power and instead of fixing long term issues in a coordinated and democratic way they try to protect their wealth and short term profitablity.
More greata thunbergs oh no
Oh yes. Moving along...
We should release climate cooling particles into he air to give us more time because that's cheap and the only thing that has ever been shown to actually slow down climate change.
We have to spend our money to mitigate the effect of climate changes it would be more efficient for us than trying to stop it.
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6 paid fools
Not at all. They know what they see. No gaslighting here.
The issue here is they keep making these complaints but never give out a possible viable solution
Do they think these changes they are demanding can be turned on like a switch
I think climate change is real, but I also think it's not easy to change the foundations of a building while the building is still standing
Yes they actually do think like that.
policies need to be actually put in place to prevent more damage from being done as well
They're suing governments instead of the corporations which are directly causing emissions. It's like suing the government for failure to prevent trespassing instead of suing the man who trespassed on your property.
These kids just want fame and some easy money, if they're lucky to get a cash settlement.
No, they are correct. It's the governments who are failing to enforce their own laws and policies which the corporations you talk about refuse to respect for their own profit.
Hope they get the future they want..... hope they won't regret it either when their lifestyles and living standards are heavily curtailed by the Globalists.
I’d trade whatever boogeyman the fossil fueled right have invented for a liveable planet my man
They will regret it very badly when they became taxpayers themselves.
Europeans are becoming so boring like this! There are so many problems that need to be solved, but the joking EU politicians always pick up this gimmick game. If these climate cases are really going to be the case in court, should these plaintiffs be examined first? Whether their birth should be thankful to the increasing amount of European nonsense caused by the greenhouse effect? 😂
You make no sense.
@@joso7228nonsense actually😊
Blame the drug producers and dealers. Never the consumers. USA and Russia, both producers and exporters of gaz and oil, are to blame, patenting the electrical ways to block electrical cars to exist to sell their oil . Not EU members... ;)
Young people can be full of passion and fight ! The adults should ignore them and look the other way while they have their tantrum !
Keep licking those establishment boots little guy