Climate Change Litigation: German Family Farmers and Urgenda – Similar Cases, Differing Judgments

Thomas Schomerus
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In the Dutch Urgenda and the German Family Farmers’ cases, the claimants sued the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, according to their national programmes. On the Dutch side, the claimants won in three instances up to the Supreme Court, while they lost at the German Administration Court of Berlin. A main factual difference between the two situations is that in the Netherlands, the Dutch government had, to a certain extent, withdrawn from its initial positions on climate policy. The judgments show that climate change litigation is necessary to gain progress towards a greater understanding of state institution roles in addressing the global threat of climate change, culminating in a better fulfilment of climate change goals.
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气候变化诉讼:德国家庭农民和Urgenda——相似的案例,不同的判决
在荷兰“紧急议程”和德国“家庭农民”案中,原告起诉该州,要求根据各自的国家计划,到2020年减少温室气体排放。在荷兰方面,索赔人在最高法院的三个案件中获胜,而他们在柏林的德国行政法院败诉。这两种情况的一个主要事实区别是,在荷兰,荷兰政府在一定程度上放弃了其在气候政策上的最初立场。这些判决表明,为了更好地理解国家机构在应对气候变化全球威胁方面的作用,最终更好地实现气候变化目标,气候变化诉讼是必要的。
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