Six young people are preparing to appear at the European court of human rights to try to compel 32 nations to rapidly escalate their emissions reductions in the world’s largest climate legal action to date. They argue that a lack of adequate action is a breach of human rights.

The six Portuguese claimants say they were driven to act by their experiences in the wildfires that ripped through the Leiria region in 2017.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/14/young-people-to-take-32-european-countries-to-court-over-climate-policies

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