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Message started by # on Oct 5th, 2013 at 12:17pm

Title: Climate negligence litigation
Post by # on Oct 5th, 2013 at 12:17pm
Interesting development. Given that much of Holland is below sea level, sea level rise is bound to be a worry.

Urgenda foundation to sue Dutch State for failing climate change policy

30 September 2013

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Dutch foundation Urgenda is planning to sue the Dutch state for its failing climate change policy. The court summons (Dutch only) will be presented to the state on 23 October. The plaintiffs claim there rests an obligation upon the Netherlands to reduce its CO2-emissions with 25-40 percent by 2020 compared to emission levels in 1990, in order to prevent damage to the global environment and violations of international human rights law. Various reports suggest that a 25-40 percent reduction is required of all industrialised states in order to have a real chance at limiting the global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius.

Urgenda will ask of the Dutch courts to declare that the Netherlands is acting wrongfully by failing to take the necessary measures to achieve a reduction percentage of 25-40 percent, and to order the Netherlands to (i) take the necessary measures to achieve this reduction percentage and (ii) inform Dutch citizens about the risks of climate change.

A more comprehensive report from earlier in the year:
Will judges force the Netherlands to meet E.U. climate goals?
Erica Rex, E&E correspondent
ClimateWire: Tuesday, March 12, 2013


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Nine U.S. states have atmospheric trust litigation pending, and there are countless other environmental and regulatory cases before federal courts, but the Urgenda case is the first of its kind in Europe.

Marjan Minnesma, Urgenda's executive director, with the assistance of attorney Roger H.J. Cox, the author of a recent book asserting "only the law can save us now," are hoping to force administrative action in the Netherlands through its judicial system.


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In legal terms, Cox believes, the evidence presented by the IPCC is incontrovertible. Two thousand five hundred scientists in 150 countries contributed scientific evidence. He thinks no court could deviate from the IPCC findings because it would be impossible to present any expertise that would be as conclusive.


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In the U.S. and the English common law systems, it is known as the "prudent man" standard. What is the obligation of a person, business or government to protect others from harm? Judges have often defined it as what a reasonable and prudent man would have done. Cox wants this applied to climate change. By not acting on the facts presented by the IPCC, Cox said, governments endanger their citizens and violate human rights.

Title: Re: Climate negligence litigation
Post by Ajax on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:04pm
The green agenda to destroy industrial nations.

The dutch government should have them all jailed for trying to disrupt the country.......!!!!!!

The UN Green Agenda 21 - View it
http://youtu.be/k52J9AoUW24

Read it.
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf

Straight from the horses mouth...what more do you want..??


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In November 2010, German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer stated about climate policy........


"But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this.

One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."




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"International carbon markets will cover billions of consumers this decade. Ask the bankers at your table whether they want Australia to clip that ticket. We’re going to help them get their share." Julia Gillard 

http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/speech-business-council-australia-dinner


You want to follow the ideologies of this PIG.....!!!!!




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"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"

- Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme



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"If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse." -Maurice Strong quoted in the September 1, 1997 edition of National Review magazine.



Title: Re: Climate negligence litigation
Post by # on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:54pm

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:04pm:
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You want to follow the ideologies of this PIG.....!!!!!
...
No need to hyperventilate!

All I did was report an interesting development. Depending on how things pan out, there might not be anyone left to sue.

Title: Re: Climate negligence litigation
Post by Ajax on Oct 5th, 2013 at 2:06pm

# wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:54pm:

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:04pm:
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You want to follow the ideologies of this PIG.....!!!!!
...
No need to hyperventilate!

All I did was report an interesting development. Depending on how things pan out, there might not be anyone left to sue.


Ok so are you for or against such treason......????

Title: Re: Climate negligence litigation
Post by # on Oct 5th, 2013 at 5:00pm

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 2:06pm:

# wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:54pm:

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:04pm:
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You want to follow the ideologies of this PIG.....!!!!!
...
No need to hyperventilate!

All I did was report an interesting development. Depending on how things pan out, there might not be anyone left to sue.


Ok so are you for or against such treason......????
Treason?

Title: Re: Climate negligence litigation
Post by Phemanderac on Oct 7th, 2013 at 10:04am

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 2:06pm:

# wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:54pm:

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:04pm:
...
You want to follow the ideologies of this PIG.....!!!!!
...
No need to hyperventilate!

All I did was report an interesting development. Depending on how things pan out, there might not be anyone left to sue.


Ok so are you for or against such treason......????


I don't think it is treason to call him a pig...Not very polite, but not treason.

Title: Re: Climate negligence litigation
Post by # on Oct 7th, 2013 at 10:51am

Phemanderac wrote on Oct 7th, 2013 at 10:04am:

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 2:06pm:

# wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:54pm:

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:04pm:
...
You want to follow the ideologies of this PIG.....!!!!!
...
No need to hyperventilate!

All I did was report an interesting development. Depending on how things pan out, there might not be anyone left to sue.


Ok so are you for or against such treason......????


I don't think it is treason to call him a pig...Not very polite, but not treason.

Ajax was accusing the "pig" of treason; why that might be, only Ajax can say.

Title: Re: Climate negligence litigation
Post by Ajax on Oct 7th, 2013 at 12:56pm

# wrote on Oct 7th, 2013 at 10:51am:

Phemanderac wrote on Oct 7th, 2013 at 10:04am:

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 2:06pm:

# wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:54pm:

Ajax wrote on Oct 5th, 2013 at 1:04pm:
...
You want to follow the ideologies of this PIG.....!!!!!
...
No need to hyperventilate!

All I did was report an interesting development. Depending on how things pan out, there might not be anyone left to sue.


Ok so are you for or against such treason......????


I don't think it is treason to call him a pig...Not very polite, but not treason.

Ajax was accusing the "pig" of treason; why that might be, only Ajax can say.


That PIG condemns himself...............!!!!!


Quote:
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"

- Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme


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