By Prof. em. dr. Lucas Bergkamp, LL.M. - Original post in Dutch here Abstract The climate movement has discovered criminal law as a tool for conducting climate politics. To complement civil lawsuits against states and corporations, the movement’s activists intend to invoke torture and a newly proposed crime of “ecocide” to target [...]
By Lucas Bergkamp & Katinka M. Brouwer June 21, 2021 Repost from: The Human Right to a Safe Climate – Putting Democracy Under Judicial Guardianship | RealClearEnergy Climate change litigation pending before the European Court of Human Rights is designed to arouse extreme forms of judicial climate activism. These cases pose serious threats to the rule [...]
A group of European organisations is calling on MEPs to reject a motion to announce a ‘climate emergency’ when the European Parliament votes on it tomorrow. The European Climate Realist Network (ECRN) is concerned that unjustified panic and alarm could pressure MEPs into supporting costly policies that will hurt European families, businesses and Europe’s economic stability [...]
At a press conference on Wednesday (20th November), the European Parliament was told: ‘there is no climate emergency’. One MEP became emotional and accused the organisers of ‘collective manslaughter’ on future generations. Date: 23/11/19 By Harry Wilkinson, Global Warming Policy Forum The press conference was hosted by the European Conservatives [...]
A new, high-level global network of more than 700 prominent climate scientists and professionals has submitted a declaration that there is no “climate emergency”. The group has recently sent the Declaration with a registered letter to António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. This action has received overwhelming response from all over the world. [...]
