The Portuguese youth, aged between 11 and 24, decided to file the lawsuit six years ago, for which they raised a total of 100 thousand pounds sterling (about 44.7 million forints) in crowdfunding in order to launch the largest climate lawsuit in history and sue dozens of people. Developed European countries.. The experiment began after a forest fire near Leiria in central Portugal in 2017.
Lawyers representing the youth will show that the governments of the 32 countries being sued are doing little to curb climate change.
Greece, one of the countries sued, had previously defended itself by saying that climate change does not currently directly threaten human life and health. The Irish government rejected the argument that they had not proven an imminent danger, while the Portuguese government claimed that the plaintiffs wanted to sue them because of their future concerns, which contained only general assumptions or possibilities rather than concrete examples.
Like the Guardian He writesThe UK government is defending itself by taking global action on climate change and has set a legally binding target to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
The EU member states named in the lawsuit are the following:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Greece
- Holland
- Ireland
- Poland
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Hungary
- Malta
- Germany
- Italy
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Spain
- Sweden
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
The non-EU countries being sued are:
- Norway
- Russia
- Switzerland
- United kingdom
- turkey
