The team behind the case said the bloc’s top court earlier this month dismissed it on procedural grounds, arguing that individuals do not have the right to challenge the bloc’s environmental plans.Lawyers for the “People’s Climate Case” said they would appeal.
They include a Portuguese forester who had all his trees destroyed by wildfires in 2017 and a family from the Italian Alps which has seen the tourists their livelihoods depend on dwindle due to warmer winters. But it decided that this did not provide grounds for suing the EU, which has already committed to reduce emissions.“On the contrary, the Court accepts that climate change is impacting everybody but refrains to engage with the facts of climate change and its human rights impacts.”The Paris climate agreement, signed in 2015, commits to limiting global temperature rises to “well below” two degrees Celsius .
There are currently around 1,000 cases brought against governments across the world related to climate change and habitat loss, according to a database compiled by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
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