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This week, with all eyes on an EU summit that filled Brussels' top job vacancies, Méabh Mc Mahon spoke to Belgian climate activist Adelaide Charlier, corporate lobbyist Connor Allen and EU policy specialist Julian Parodi from EPICO. Panelists considered what message European voters sent when they went to polls last May, and what impact that could have on EU climate legislation. Complaints that EU environmental law is becoming an expensive imposition may have had an impact, with fewer voters opting for green parties. Connor Allen said the EU's flagship climate initiative is now a "zombie", neit...
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Youth climate activists have won a "historic" settlement in Hawaii. The lawsuit was the world's first youth-led constitutional climate case seeking to address climate pollution from the transportation sector. It alleged that the US state violated the constitution by operating a transport system that harmed the climate and infringed upon the children's right to a clean and healthy environment. The activists asked the state government to take action and shift to a climate-safe, zero-emissions transportation system. Hawaii's governor and lawyers for the youth plaintiffs announced that the case wa...
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A group of older Swiss women who won a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights on climate change are urging their government to fully comply with the judgment. In April, the court ruled in favour of an association of more than 2,000 women, known as the KlimaSeniorinnen, stating for the first time that insufficient government inaction to tackle greenhouse gas emissions is a breach of human rights. It was seen as a historic decision, not only in Europe but around the world. Swiss politicians fought the case from the startHowever, there was resistance within Switzerland from the start...
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They began by protesting alongside Greta Thunberg at Fridays for Future demonstrations; now they are candidates for the imminent European Parliament elections. A generation of young Europeans that became activists while still at school is now of age to take up positions in political office. They have launched campaigns across Europe in order to protect and further climate protection policies amid backlash from right-leaning parties. If successful, they will become some of the 720 European lawmakers who, alongside EU governments, pass new laws. The elections from 6-9 June come at a key moment a...
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"The elections are coming" an activist cheerily reminds an older woman passing by as she hands her a leaflet. It's a balmy spring day in Brussels and the city's Extinction Rebellion branch is staging a protest at Place Jean Rey, a stone's throw away from the European Parliament. In less than two months over 400 million people will have the opportunity to go to the polls and decide who will fill that parliament. The 100 or so demonstrators block a road under the watchful eye of multiple police officers. “Our demand is to stop fossil [fuel] subsidies immediately, as the least that Europe can do ...
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A woman who claims her elbow was broken by police during a climate protest at The Hague has described the painful physical and mental impact of the incident. The Dutch resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, was one of more than 400 people including Greta Thunberg arrested for taking part in the peaceful protest on Saturday. In a video posted to X by organisers Extinction Rebellion Nederland, she is seen lying in the back of a bus while being detained by The Hague police. A male police officer twists her arm forward at an unnatural angle, and she yells out in pain. “This violence is no excep...
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