Six young activists are taking 32 European governments to court, saying failure to address climate change is a violation of their human rights.
The ruling adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.When the Portuguese group decided in 2017 that they would pursue legal action, Sofia had braces, stood taller than her younger brother André and was starting seventh grade. The braces are long gone and André, who is now 15, is taller than she is by about an inch.
The Praia do Norte beach at Costa da Caparica near where Sofia and André live, just south of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, was about 3,000 feet long when his father was his age, André says. Now, amid coastal erosion, it measures less than 1,000 feet. Evidence like that led him to attend climate demonstrations even before he became a teen.
The other four members of the Portuguese group — Catarina, Cláudia, Martim and Mariana — are siblings and cousins who live in the region of Leiria in central Portugal where summer wildfires are common. Scientists say the climate of the Sahara is jumping across the Mediterranean Sea to southern European countries like Portugal, where average temperatures are climbing and rainfall is declining. Portugal’s hottest year on record was 1997, followed by 2017. The four driest years on record in the country of 10.3 million people have all occurred since 2003.
It’s a similar story across Europe, and the legal arguments of the six Portuguese are backed by science. The Earth sweltered through its
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