{"id":115778,"date":"2023-08-01T07:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T04:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/climate-in-court-un-tracks-doubling-of-legal-cases-filed-within-five-years\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T04:52:19","slug":"climate-in-court-un-tracks-doubling-of-legal-cases-filed-within-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/climate-in-court-un-tracks-doubling-of-legal-cases-filed-within-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate in court: UN tracks doubling of legal cases filed within five years"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115778\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe number of legal cases filed against governments and corporations on climate grounds exceeded 2,000 for the first time last year, according to the UN. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has this week published new global figures on climate-related litigation, revealing the increasing pressure that governments and big businesses are being put under by citizens to strengthen future plans and right previous wrongs.<\/p>\n<p>Collated in partnership with Colombia University\u2019s Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law, the figures reveal a total of 2,180 climate-related cases filed in 2022. This is more than double the number of cases filed in 2017, the first year in which the UNEP researched the issue. Then, 844 cases were filed.<\/p>\n<p>Over the five-year period, the US has remained the nation with the greatest number of cases filed. The figures are accompanied by an analysis covering how climate litigation has become an \u201cincreasingly well-defined\u201d field of law globally, particularly in the US and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The UNEP has, however, tracked a steep uptick in cases being filed in low-income nations in the Global South over the past five years. Almost one-fifth of the cases filed in 2022 were in developing countries, showing a growing trend towards the most-affected communities finding legal outlets to challenge big polluters. Also of note is the fact that more than one in ten cases filed last year were brought by \u2013 or on behalf of \u2013 those aged 25 and under. The youngest claimants were girls between seven and nine in Pakistan and India respectively.<\/p>\n<p>UNEP is expecting a rise in the number of cases to continue. It also expects to see a greater proportion of the filings being made either by or on behalf of the most marginalised groups. Additionally noted is a forecasted change in the reasons why cases are filed. At present, many cases ride on historic and ongoing harms to public health and human rights. In the decades to come, more cases are likely to be about climate-related migration and the social impact of polluting industries on natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Sabin Center\u2019s faculty director Michael Gerrard said: \u201cThere is a distressingly growing gap between the level of greenhouse gas reductions the world needs to achieve in order to meet its temperature targets and the actions that governments are actually taking to lower emissions. This inevitably will lead more people to resort to the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Governments to have been taken to the courts on climate grounds last year include Australia, which was found to be violating its human rights obligations to Torres Strait Islanders for inaction on decarbonising energy and industry in line with the Paris Agreement. In Europe, courts sided against the German and French Governments on the grounds of public health and ecological damage respectively. Additionally, the UK\u2019s original net-zero strategy was deemed unlawful by the High Court in July 2022. A judge ordered an update by this March 2023, which did come, but will once again face a legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of the claims in this case are that the strategies to not lay out clear, time-bound numerical targets to decarbonise each industry. Moreover, they do not detail the level of funding and practical support necessary. Corporations, as well as Governments, are increasingly facing climate litigation \u2013 especially energy companies and financial firms.Shell, for example, was ordered by a Dutch court to update its emissions goals through to 2030 in line with the Paris Agreement back in 2021. In France, similarly, TotalEnergies was ordered to improve its climate risk measurement and disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The report touches on how, going forward, agri-food businesses and others with significant impacts on nature may well be the target of more court cases. Claimants could look at public health and \u2018ecocide\u2019 as well as climate targets.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/climate-in-court-un-tracks-doubling-of-legal-cases-filed-within-five-years\/\">edie.net<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/climate-in-court-un-tracks-doubling-of-legal-cases-filed-within-five-years\/\">Climate in court: UN tracks doubling of legal cases filed within five years<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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":[10891,575,402],"class_list":["post-115778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-court","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}