Green activists seek to force revision of EU’s ‘inadequate’ climate targets
Backers of EU court challenge are emboldened by a recent legal finding that suggests failing to effectively tackle climate change violates human rights
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00:00The annual emission allocations, in our view, contravene environmental law and should therefore
00:18be changed.
00:20And more generally, our core belief is that the EU should adopt immediate action beyond
00:26the Pitfall 55 agreement to allow for much steeper emission reductions than the ones
00:32that have been decided so far.
00:51Our view, and we rely on the methodology of the Climate Action Tracker, is that if all
00:57states worldwide were to pursue the same level of ambition than the EU is currently going
01:02for, we would reach a catastrophic three degree increase, or even almost four degree increase,
01:09by the end of the century.