The lawsuit notes that the government is constitutionally obligated to protect Koreans from the climate emergency.
A child holds a placard that says"Save the Earth" at Climate Justice March around the Gwanghwamun area of Seoul, South Korea, on September 24, 2022.One of South Korea’s two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia’s first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country’s government of failing to protect citizens from the effects of the worsening, human-caused planetary emergency.
“South Korea’s current climate plans are not sufficient to keep the temperature increase within 1.5°C, thus violating the state’s obligation to protect fundamental rights,” the plaintiffs said in a statement.committed to “holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.
: “Carbon emission reduction keeps getting pushed back as if it is homework that can be done later. But that burden will be what our children have to bear eventually.” The ECHR ruled on the same day that climate cases brought by a former French mayor and a group of Portuguese youth were inadmissible.ruled
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