South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's climate change law fails to protect future generations from a climate crisis and thus violates their basic human rights. It says the law must be revised with more concrete emissions targets for 2031 and beyond.
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00:00South Korea's constitutional court has ruled that the country's climate change law fails
00:05to protect human rights.
00:07The law outlines a goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 and outlines emissions
00:12targets to achieve by 2030.
00:14But the court said it lacks concrete targets for the years after that.
00:18The court said the law must be revised by early 2026.
00:22The case was brought by young Koreans who argued the government wasn't doing enough
00:26to protect them from a climate crisis.
00:29It's a very positive ruling and it's one of the earlier, one of the few we have in
00:34Asia specifically that looks at this issue.
00:37Many of the cases have been decided in Europe, for example.