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A group of citizens is calling on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate damage done by Big Oil. Chesapeake Climate Action Network and advocacy group Public Citizen have teamed up to deliver a letter demanding that oil and gas companies be held accountable for fueling climate-driven disasters such as floods, fires, hurricanes and extreme heat that have destroyed property and taken innocent lives. Signed by more than 10,000, the letter’s signatories include over 1,000 people who have survived climate-fuelled disasters themselves. They want the DOJ to investigate Big Oil for allegedly...
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“When people ask me, ‘What can I do as an individual about the climate?’, I reply: ‘Don’t be an individual - work together with others,” says Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project. Statistics show that the vast majority of people in Europe care about the climate crisis: more than half of European voters believe it should be a priority while only 16 per cent see it as a secondary issue, according to a Euronews-Ipsos poll conducted ahead of this year’s EU elections. The problem is, most of us don’t know what to do about it. After decades of committed climate action - from bein...
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This week, with all eyes on an EU summit that filled Brussels' top job vacancies, Méabh Mc Mahon spoke to Belgian climate activist Adelaide Charlier, corporate lobbyist Connor Allen and EU policy specialist Julian Parodi from EPICO. Panelists considered what message European voters sent when they went to polls last May, and what impact that could have on EU climate legislation. Complaints that EU environmental law is becoming an expensive imposition may have had an impact, with fewer voters opting for green parties. Connor Allen said the EU's flagship climate initiative is now a "zombie", neit...
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Youth climate activists have won a "historic" settlement in Hawaii. The lawsuit was the world's first youth-led constitutional climate case seeking to address climate pollution from the transportation sector. It alleged that the US state violated the constitution by operating a transport system that harmed the climate and infringed upon the children's right to a clean and healthy environment. The activists asked the state government to take action and shift to a climate-safe, zero-emissions transportation system. Hawaii's governor and lawyers for the youth plaintiffs announced that the case wa...
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A group of older Swiss women who won a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights on climate change are urging their government to fully comply with the judgment. In April, the court ruled in favour of an association of more than 2,000 women, known as the KlimaSeniorinnen, stating for the first time that insufficient government inaction to tackle greenhouse gas emissions is a breach of human rights. It was seen as a historic decision, not only in Europe but around the world. Swiss politicians fought the case from the startHowever, there was resistance within Switzerland from the start...
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They began by protesting alongside Greta Thunberg at Fridays for Future demonstrations; now they are candidates for the imminent European Parliament elections. A generation of young Europeans that became activists while still at school is now of age to take up positions in political office. They have launched campaigns across Europe in order to protect and further climate protection policies amid backlash from right-leaning parties. If successful, they will become some of the 720 European lawmakers who, alongside EU governments, pass new laws. The elections from 6-9 June come at a key moment a...
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