Six young people take 32 countries to court!
Six young Portuguese people, including Claudia, 24, her brother Martim, 20, and sister Mariana, 11, have filed a case against 32 governments, including those of all EU member states, the UK, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, and Turkey. They accuse the nations of failing to do enough to combat climate change and failing to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases significantly enough to meet the Paris Agreement's goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has received the first case of its kind. If it is effective, it might result in binding legal obligations for the participating states. On Wednesday, the case's first hearing will take place. Mariana, 11, says, "I want a clean, green world without pollution, and I want to be healthy." "I'm involved in this situation because I'm very concerned about the future. I'm worried about the future appearance of our home. The ashes from the wildfires were raining over their house kilometers away, and Claudia said Mariana still gets frightened when she sees helicopters flying overhead because they remind her of the firemen from the year 2017 when more than 50,000 acres (78 sq miles, 202 sq km) of forest were devastated.
G20 wants to achieve its goal of tripling the world's renewable energy capacity by 2030, according to an explanation
At the most recent G20 meeting held in New Delhi in India. The commitment to work toward tripling the world's renewable energy capacity by 2030 was the sole fresh and distinct deliverable on climate change.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated earlier this year that by 2030, this single action may avert 7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. It is not unexpected that during the past few years, nations have consistently been exhorted to adopt this as a goal. In addition, even with a little hesitation from conventional fossil fuel-producing nations like Russia and Saudi Arabia, tripling renewable capacity was among the G20 grouping's low-hanging climate-related fruit. Worldwide adoption of renewable energy is already expanding, with annual capacity additions increasing by about 10% annually. The deployment of renewable energy in developing nations is not inherently problematic, even though the rich countries undoubtedly provided the encouragement.
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