
Law and Oil: Taking Climate Offenders to Court
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The German Climate Case: A Forward Looking Challenge
The German climate case is an interesting one. There, the challenge was to what the government was doing by the year 2030. It ordered the parliament to go back and outline how it was going to stay within its carbon budget. And then two weeks after that decision, the German parliament increased its climate targets by 10%. The court brought forward its climate neutrality target to 2045. So five years earlier than it originally was.
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