Court rules that Belgium’s climate failures violate human rights
Belgium’s failure to meet climate targets is a violation of human rights, a Brussels court has ruled, in the latest legal victory against public authorities that have broken promises to tackle the climate emergency. Judges declared that the Belgian state had committed an offence under Belgian’s civil law and breached the European convention on human rights. The NGO that brought the case, Klimaatzaak, hails the judgment as historic.
Source: The Guardian
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