30 09, 2021

The Legal Doctrine of “Carbon Crimes”—Torturing Law and Reason to Rid the Planet of Climate-Change Deniers

By |2021-09-30T11:30:11+02:0030 September 2021|Belgium Dutch, News, The Netherlands|Comments Off on The Legal Doctrine of “Carbon Crimes”—Torturing Law and Reason to Rid the Planet of Climate-Change Deniers

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 [...]

22 06, 2021

The Human Right to a Safe Climate – Putting Democracy Under Judicial Guardianship

By |2021-06-22T11:24:29+02:0022 June 2021|News, The Netherlands|Comments Off on The Human Right to a Safe Climate – Putting Democracy Under Judicial Guardianship

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 [...]

27 11, 2019

European Groups Call On MEPs To Reject ‘Climate Emergency’ Vote

By |2020-01-25T10:36:01+01:0027 November 2019|News|Comments Off on European Groups Call On MEPs To Reject ‘Climate Emergency’ Vote

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 [...]

23 11, 2019

European Parliament Told: There is No Climate Emergency

By |2020-03-27T16:57:02+01:0023 November 2019|News, Videos|Comments Off on European Parliament Told: There is No Climate Emergency

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 [...]

18 10, 2019

There is no climate emergency, say 700 experts

By |2019-11-29T09:54:21+01:0018 October 2019|News|Comments Off on There is no climate emergency, say 700 experts

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. [...]