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State of the Netherlands v Urgenda

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DOI10.3366/gels.2020.0008
Published date01 February 2020
Date01 February 2020
Pages104-106
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INTRODUCTION

The State of the Netherlands v Urgenda (hereafter referred to as the Urgenda case) has been ongoing since 2013. The most recent decision in the case occurred on the 20 December 2019. The Supreme Court in the Netherlands in a decision held that the Netherlands had an obligation to take action to prevent climate change and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 25% at the end of 2020 compared to 1990 levels. Further it noted that this was on the basis of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The case occurred after the Dutch government revised downwards its planned emissions target (from 30% to 14–17%) in 2011 – it had planned for 30% as a result of the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

 THE POTENTIAL FOR INFLUENCE OF THE URGENDA DECISION

Without getting too much into the timeline and procedure of the case, the outcome delivered will have a major...

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