The Affair of the Century, Belgian version.
Thousands of citizens of the flat country, who have won a first legal victory sanctioning the country's inaction against global warming, are demanding a second trial to impose an ambitious goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 2030. L he Klimaatzaak association (or Climate Affair in Dutch), which brings together 58,000 Belgians, is thus appealing the decision of the Brussels court rendered last June.
Objective: to obtain a decision imposing a “linear trajectory” for reducing emissions and respecting “a minimum of -65% in 2030”.
No quantified target had been imposed on the federal state and the three regions during the first trial, even if they had been found guilty of "fault" by being insufficiently "cautious and diligent" in their climate policy.
Flanders not exemplary
In Belgium, the regions, which share responsibility for transport, energy and the environment with the federal state, have a say in CO2 emissions.
They again displayed their divisions on the occasion of the COP26 in Glasgow.
The authorities in Flanders, where the port of Antwerp is the country's economic heart, have thus lowered Belgian ambitions already below the European objective of reducing emissions by at least -55% in 2030 compared to 1990.
It is not a question of "asking the courts to arbitrate these quarrels between regions" and to set them each a binding objective, explains Me Carole Billiet, lawyer of Klimaatzaak.
But for Belgium "to give itself a chance to reach zero emissions on time, it needs benchmarks by 2030", according to the lawyer.
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