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Global Climate Change — Landmark Judgments
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Landmark Judgments
Urgenda Foundation v. State of the Netherlands
2019This landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands affirmed that the Dutch government had a legal obligation to protect its citizens from climate change and ordered it…
Youth for Climate Justice v. Federal Republic of Germany
2021Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the country's climate protection law was partially unconstitutional because it failed to set sufficient emission reduction…