January 22nd, 2019 Court six in the High Court had a “festival atmosphere” this morning. This was according to one barrister, who, upon squeezing into the room at around 10.45am, was met with row upon row of filled seats. While pews are usually taken up by fellow counsel waiting to be Read more…
January 22nd, 2019 On October 23, 2017, Friends of the Irish Environment (FiE) obtained permission from the High Court to proceed with an unprecedented environmental legal case against the Irish Government. This week, the High Court will finally hear the landmark case known as the Irish Climate Case where FiE Read more…
August 13th, 2018 An EU court has agreed to hear a case brought by families across Europe against the bloc for alleged failure to adopt effective laws to tackle climate change. The lawsuit was launched in May with the plaintiffs asking EU institutions to recognise climate change as a real Read more…
August 3rd, 2018 Last year was the warmest year on record without the influence of El Niño, meaning that the four warmest years on record have now occurred since 2014. This is the finding of the 28th annual State of the Climate report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Read more…
April 7th, 2018 Friends of the Irish Environment appeared at the UN climate talks in Bonn to discuss its “landmark” climate case against the Irish Government. Speaking at the talks this afternoon, FiE’s Sadhbh O’Neill, who travelled overland to Bonn, discussed the environmental group’s legal challenge against the Government of Read more…
February 14th, 2018 A group of young Colombians has taken legal action against the government, demanding that it safeguards their rights to a better environment, water, food, health, and life. The twenty-five Colombians from the ages of seven to 26 argue that deforestation, which shot up almost 44 per cent Read more…
January 29th, 2017 After the success of the Urgenda climate case discussed in the first of our Climate Cases series, a number of citizens’ groups and NGOs stood up across the world and took the brave move of taking their governments to court over climate inaction. With many climate movements Read more…
January 25th, 2018 With the landmark legal case against the Irish Government for alleged inaction to tackle climate change set to be heard before the High Court next week, The Green News we will take a look at some of the international cases that have paved the way for the Read more…
November 8th, 2017 Governments across the world are now being held legally accountable for climate inaction, and all eyes will now be on what unfolds in Ireland, according to a leading international environmental lawyer. Speaking at the Litigation for the Climate talk in UCD this week, Dutch lawyer Dennis Van Read more…
