The Netherlands has to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by next year under a ruling issued Friday by the country's Supreme Court
The Netherlands has to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by next year under a ruling issuedby the country's Supreme Court, which said global warming poses “great dangers to life on earth.”
The figure is significantly more than the 20 percent cut compared to 1990 levels called for under the Netherlands’ EU targets, and is far above the reductions the country has managed to accomplish. The government said it would study the verdict and react next month."As the government has previously indicated, it will continue striving to 25 percent," Economy and Climate Minister Eric Wiebes said in aThe court said it based its judgment on the U.N. climate convention and"the legal obligations of the state to protect the lives and well-being of citizens in the Netherlands."
The Supreme Court verdict upholds earlier lower court decisions compelling the government to increase its climate efforts in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. The governmentThe decision is a win for Dutch NGO Urgenda which originally brought the case against the government. It said the court"delivered a groundbreaking decision that confirms that individual governments must do their fair share to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The NGO said the decision would likely compel the government to close coal-fired power plants which opened as recently as three years ago; coalThe case dug into the issue of whether governments have the sole right to set policy in areas like climate change where there is an overwhelming public interest. Urgenda charged that the government's planned pace of greenhouse gas emissions reductions was much too slow to combat global warming, and shirked its duty to protect its citizens.
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