{"id":135897,"date":"2024-12-09T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/young-campaigners-win-landmark-climate-case-to-stop-new-coal-power-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T05:56:39","slug":"young-campaigners-win-landmark-climate-case-to-stop-new-coal-power-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/young-campaigners-win-landmark-climate-case-to-stop-new-coal-power-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Young campaigners win landmark climate case to stop new coal power in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135897\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Civil society organisations said the government\u2019s plan to add 1500MW of new coal-fired power was expensive, unnecessary, and a limitation of children\u2019s right to a healthy environment. South Africa\u2019s High Court has overturned government plans to add 1,500MW of new coal-fired power to the nation\u2019s electricity grid. In a landmark climate case, Judge Cornelius van der Westhuizen said that the plan was unlawful and invalid because the government failed to consider the potential impact on children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Cancel Coal\u2019 case was brought by three youth civil society organisations: the African Climate Alliance (ACA), the Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action (VEM), and the Groundwork Trust, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER). Launched three years ago, the case argued that the government\u2019s energy policy violated several sections of the country\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The burning of coal is one of the biggest contributors to climate change and has numerous health impacts from water and air pollution. The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air estimates that coal-fired power stations kill more than 2,200 South Africans every year and cause thousands of cases of bronchitis and asthma in adults and children annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe experience air pollution, water pollution and land pollution \u2013 everything is affected by the coal mines. The environment we\u2019re living in is very destructive, so many people are sick,\u201d says Mbali Mathebula, an environmental activist from VEM who lives in the Highveld, an inland region in northeast South Africa. \u201cCoal is affecting members of the community\u2019s health and comfort, people are living with cancer and respiratory diseases and rely on oxygen and nebulisers just to survive. The Cancel Coal case is a last resort; we are saying there should be no new coal power, it is too destructive,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is already the seventh biggest coal producer in the world, relying on this fossil fuel for 80 per cent of its electricity. The country has the most carbon-intensive economy in the G20. The civil society organisations said the government\u2019s plan to add 1500MW of new coal-fired power was expensive, unnecessary, and a limitation of children\u2019s right to a healthy environment.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled in favour of the alliance, saying that the government has failed to properly consider the impact of coal on future generations\u2019 rights.\u201cThe Rule 53 record, as well as the first and second respondents\u2019 evidence, is ominously silent on any considerations given to the effect that the additional 1 500 MW new coal-fired power will have on the environment and health of the nation, in particular, that of children,\u201d the judgement reads.\u201cA clear indication that the first and second respondents did not comply with their constitutional obligations in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/12\/06\/young-campaigners-win-landmark-climate-case-to-stop-new-coal-power-in-south-africa\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/12\/06\/young-campaigners-win-landmark-climate-case-to-stop-new-coal-power-in-south-africa\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/young-campaigners-win-landmark-climate-case-to-stop-new-coal-power-in-south-africa\/\">Young campaigners win landmark climate case to stop new coal power in South Africa<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,17224],"class_list":["post-135897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-new-coal-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}