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The Dutch Government's Duty of Care in the Dutch Court
In the Dutch law you have something that says well as a government you have to take care of your citizens. The Dutch government itself has declared that climate change is a major problem already this sentence so they have said it is very dangerous. There was also a so-called standard of care so there was this duty and there was a standard that they had admitted and that 200 countries in the world had admitted. So then as a judge if you know there is a duty of care and there's also a standard then you can say well if it's so dangerous that it will cost lives and so on and so on then I can ask as a judge from the government to do what's necessary to protect
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