A key step for climate advocates.
The Paris administrative court on Wednesday 3 February condemned the French state to pay a symbolic euro to the applicant associations for "moral damage" in the context of "The affair of the century".
The State is "responsible" for failures in the fight against global warming, has in fact considered administrative justice, seized by NGOs - Notre Affaire à tous, Greenpeace France, Nicolas Hulot Foundation and Oxfam France - supported by a petition from more than 2.3 million citizens.
If the administrative court of Paris recognized the existence of ecological damage, it nevertheless gave itself a period of two months before ruling on the need to order the State to take measures to respect its own commitments. in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions.
A key step for climate advocates.
The Paris administrative court on Wednesday condemned the French state to pay a symbolic euro to the applicant associations for "moral damage" in the context of "The affair of the century".
The State is "responsible" for failures in the fight against global warming, has in fact considered administrative justice, seized by NGOs - Notre Affaire à tous, Greenpeace France, Nicolas Hulot Foundation and Oxfam France - supported by a petition from more than 2.3 million citizens.
The Paris administrative court recognized the existence of ecological damage, but gave itself a period of two months before ruling on the need to order the State to take measures to meet its own commitments in this area. fight against greenhouse gas emissions.
The government had rejected the accusations of inaction, highlighting in particular the energy-climate law of 2019 which "reinforces the climate objectives", by aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050 or a 40% drop in energy consumption. fossil fuels by 2030.
But last November, the Council of State, in a decision described as "historic" by defenders of the planet, itself noted that France, which has committed to reducing its emissions by 40%. by 2030 compared to 1990, exceeded the carbon budgets it had set for itself.
And the highest French administrative court, seized by the municipality of Grande-Synthe, which considers itself threatened with submersion on the northern coast, has given the State three months to justify its actions in terms of reducing CO2 emissions. .
This decision, which is in addition to that of the same jurisdiction which in July gave the state six months to act against air pollution on pain of a record penalty, had greatly encouraged environmental activists.
With AFP
So far, the government has always rejected accusations of inaction, highlighting in particular the energy-climate law of 2019 which "reinforces climate objectives", by aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050 or a reduction of 40% of fossil fuel consumption by 2030.
But last November, the Council of State, in a decision described as "historic" by defenders of the planet, itself noted that France, which has committed to reducing its emissions by 40%. by 2030 compared to 1990, exceeded the carbon budgets it had set for itself.
And the highest French administrative court, seized by the municipality of Grande-Synthe, which considers itself threatened with submersion on the northern coast, has given the State three months to justify its actions in terms of reducing CO2 emissions. .
This decision, which is in addition to that of the same jurisdiction which in July gave the state six months to act against air pollution on pain of a record penalty, had greatly encouraged environmental activists.
With AFP
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