Hague climate change verdict: 'Not just a legal process but a process of hope'
by Marjan Minnesma from on (#CDN8)
A Dutch NGO has won an historic climate change victory in court, persuading a judge to order the state to cut emissions. Here the NGO's director Marjan Minnesma explains how they did it
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It all came about as the result of an online discussion. We have a platform on our website that acts as a sort of thinktank for sustainability experts. One of the users was Roger Cox [one of the lawyers in the case]. He had been reading all sorts of books and reports on climate change and thought that the politics will just never move quickly enough to reduce emissions or stop temperatures rising.
