🧑⚖️Key days for #ClimateAccountability: The Higher Regional Court of Hamm🇩🇪 will hear the highly anticipated climate case brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya against the energy company RWE #SaulvsRWE.
🐦Follow @duycks for updates from the Court🐦
https://t.co/NRsthCK1aN
6/ 🔥 🧑⚖️ In his opening remarks, Judge Meyer calls out RWE's bad faith, denouncing as legally unsound & fearmongering the argument used by the company that holding fossil fuels majors accountable for climate harm could open the door to hold every motorist accountable 🙅
🔥⚖️🌐NOW: historic moment for #ClimateJustice ongoing in #SaulvsRWE in Hamm 🇩🇪
📢this case could set a groundbreaking #ClimateLitigation legal precedent to hold polluters accountable for climate harms
🐦📝I will be reporting live on this platform, with facts & background 👇
⚖️🇺🇳continuing now: historic #ClimateJustice hearings at the @CIJ_ICJ, this afternoon we will hear oral submissions by following States: 🇦🇬Antigua & Barbuda 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia 🇦🇺Australia 🇧🇸Bahamas 🇧🇩Bangladesh 🇧🇧Barbados
live coverage in 🧵below ⬇️
#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ#AOLetsGo
Hold on to your hats: the hearing is about to begin. The President, Síofra O'Leary, is expected to explain the Court's rulings. Usually this takes about 20 minutes, for these cases it may be longer. There's no way to follow live, but a recording will posted online at 2:30 today.
Today, the appeal against the @Shell climate case verdict has started in The Hague. Much is on the line.
🔗 Check out why this climate case is so important and how to follow it https://t.co/QTmOmx3ocH
#ClimateCaseShell#Shell#Milieudefensie
📣 On the 9th April, the @ECHR_CEDH will reveal the outcome of our case!
Nearly four years have passed since we first filed a lawsuit against 32 govts whose climate inaction violates our human rights🗳
Now, in less than two weeks we'll have an answer...⏰
#Youth4ClimateJustice
Big news out of NZ — novel climate tort case against corporates to go to trial, says highest court!
Congrats to courageous Mike Smith, and team David Bullock and others!
World will be watching 👏🏻👏🏻
⚡ 📢 𝗜𝗖𝗝-𝗔𝗢: 𝟮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 of deadline for submission of written views by States to 🧑⚖️ @CIJ_ICJ in the advisory proceedings related to obligations of States in respect of climate change
🆕⌛️New deadlines: 22.03 & 24.06
#ICJAO#ICJAO4Climate
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Within days of fossil fuels taking centre stage at COP28, Uplift & Greenpeace have today filed separate legal challenges against the UK government's disastrous decision to approve the Rosebank oil field.
🧵 on the many reasons Uplift think it's unlawful:
https://t.co/ySIjmoHvfz
Like my colleague @UNSRdevelopment, my badge for #COP28📷 tells a story: a missing focus on "human rights" in the climate change agenda.
The climate crisis is a human rights crisis.
We must respond to this emergency with unprecedented urgency.
Climate case WIN in Belgian Climate Case -- just out!
Government ORDERED to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 (compared w. its 47% target under EU framework)
Very significant globally -- Govt ordered to INCREASE AMBITION of GHG target👏👏
Congrats to all at @Klimaatzaak!
We are at the Privy Council with two #Barbuda land defenders to overturn a decision denying them the right to challenge developers who are destroying their island. An important case for the whole #Caribbean region & resisting disaster capitalism. @ayanaeliza@NaomiAKlein
Today, after years of denial, delay and inaction, the Government is being forced to face the facts in expert evidence hearings for Uncle Pabai & Uncle Paul’s landmark climate case.
⚖️🌐𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰 #𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ��𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴: 6 🇵🇹Portuguese Youth demand justice and #ClimateAction from 32 European governments at 🇪🇺European Court of #HumanRights
📝see live reporting from Court (incl. context) in thread 🧵below👇