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Nongovernmental organizations engaged in climate activism
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| 2025 | Beginning of the projected period for climate reparations, where top fossil fuel companies are expected to be accountable for $5.4 trillion in climate-related compensation. |
| 2024 | A study revealed emerging trends in climate change litigation, highlighting the strategic use of legal challenges to potentially impede climate action initiatives. |
| 2024 | New Zealand Supreme Court ruled that a novel civil wrong of climate change damage can be asserted in future legal proceedings, as argued in the Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd case. |
| 2024 | A court decided to pause the process of reclassifying Lake Marmara's land as non-wetland, with environmental organization Doğa calling for the court to annul the reclassification. |
| 2024 | Mike Smith, a Māori climate activist, was granted leave by the New Zealand Supreme Court to sue seven corporations for their roles in causing climate change. His lawsuit argues that the defendants' activities harm his tribe's land, coastal waters, and traditional culture through greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel supply. |
| 2024 | In a landmark climate change litigation case, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v. Switzerland that Switzerland violated the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to adequately address climate change. This was the first instance of an international court ruling that state inaction on climate change constitutes a human rights violation. |
| December 2024 | The Supreme Court of South Africa halted government plans to add 1,500 megawatts of coal-fired power, ruling the proposal 'unlawful and invalid'. The court ordered the minister and regulator to pay costs to the complainants, marking a significant legal victory for environmental advocates. |
| December 18 2024 | The Montana Supreme Court upheld the county court's original ruling in favor of the youth plaintiffs, confirming their constitutional environmental rights. |
| September 2024 | Ethics commissioner Jennifer Devins concluded in her report that while Johnstone's attendance was relevant to his mayoral duties, accepting gifts like travel and accommodation was not aligned with his official responsibilities. |
| August 29 2024 | The Constitutional Court of Korea ruled that the absence of legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2031-2049 violated the constitutional rights of future generations, arguing that the lack of long-term targets would excessively burden future populations. |
| July 10 2024 | Montana's Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the Held v. Montana case, with all seven justices reviewing the lower court's ruling. |
| February 2024 | Councilors Daniel Fontaine and Paul Minhas filed a complaint against Patrick Johnstone, alleging violation of state laws by accepting gifts to attend the COP28 summit. |
| February 16 2024 | The first hearing of the climate lawsuit against Eni took place, challenging the company's historical emissions and requesting a 45% reduction in emissions from 2020 levels by 2030. |
| 2023 | Comparative solar panel installation showed that Belgium, the Netherlands, and Poland installed more solar panels than all of sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 2023 | A study in Nature Sustainability estimated that the UK will owe £6.2 trillion in climate reparations by 2050 due to historic carbon emissions. |
| 2023 | A review article projected that if global temperatures rise by 2°C by 2100, approximately 1 billion primarily poor people would die as a result of greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy populations. |
| 2023 | A report found that the richest 1% of humans produce more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, and the top 10% of richest people account for more than half of global carbon emissions. |
| 2023 | RWE, a German energy company, filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government under the Energy Charter Treaty, alleging insufficient time and resources were provided to enable a transition away from coal. |
| 2023 | Over 230 climate change litigation cases were recorded, with nearly 50 cases including non-aligned arguments, predominantly filed in the United States. These cases suggest potential legal tactics aimed at obstructing climate action. |
| 2023 | Three young climate activists filed a lawsuit against President Erdoğan and the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, alleging that Turkey's Nationally Determined Contribution is inadequate and violates constitutional human rights. The Council of State rejected the case. |
| 2023 | The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court ruled that the government's actions on transport and housing were inadequate in meeting carbon emission limits, requiring Berlin to present emergency programmes to align with the Climate Protection Act for the 2024-2030 period. |
| 2023 | Additional cases were brought about Lake Marmara drying up, continuing environmental legal challenges. |
| 2023 | Pope Francis issued an apostolic exhortation called Laudate Deum, calling for urgent action against the climate crisis and condemning climate change denial. |
| December 2023 | Patrick Johnstone, New Westminster Mayor, attended the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, with expenses covered by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. |
| December 2023 | Conference participants pledged 85 billion dollars to various climate issues and made ten major international pledges covering areas such as climate finance, health, energy efficiency, agriculture, and global cooling. |
| December 13 2023 | Conference president Sultan Al Jaber announces final compromise agreement, known as the UAE Consensus, committing countries to move away from carbon energy sources and reach net zero by 2050 |
| December 12 2023 | Conference originally scheduled to end, but extended due to Saudi objections on the final agreement |
| December 11 2023 | Initial draft of the final COP28 climate agreement was released, which was widely rejected by Western countries for avoiding a call to phase out fossil fuels. The draft was described by the Alliance of Small Island States as a 'death certificate' for small island nations. |
| December 11 2023 | Climate activist Licypriya Kangujam disrupted the COP28 conference by walking onto the main stage, holding up a sign reading 'End fossil fuels. Save our planet and our future', and delivering a brief speech. She was subsequently removed by security personnel and reportedly banned from further participation in the conference. |
| December 6 2023 | OPEC Secretary-General Haitham al-Ghais urged member nations to focus negotiations on reducing carbon emissions rather than prohibiting fossil fuel extraction and sale during the UN Climate Change Conference. |
| December 4 2023 | COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber held a press conference to walk back previous comments dismissing fossil fuel phase-out, now stating that he 'respects science' and believes a fossil fuel use phase-out is inevitable. |
| December 3 2023 | COP28 participants launched a declaration to triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 to 2050, signed by 25 countries. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry unveiled the declaration, emphasizing nuclear power's role in reducing carbon emissions. |
| December 2 2023 | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a comprehensive phase-out of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and reaffirmed Germany's commitment to achieving climate neutrality by 2045. |
| December 1 2023 | Climate activists protested outside the COP28 venue, calling for ecocide to be recognized as a crime at the International Criminal Court. |
| November 2023 | A pre-COP meeting was held with 100 delegations and 70 ministers attending, which was more participants than any previous pre-COP meeting. Majid al-Suwaidi, the COP general director, insisted the conference would create a loss and damage fund as agreed in the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference. |
| November 2023 | The Centre for Research on Energy reported that the UAE was regularly flaring methane gas, breaking its own regulations. |
| November 2023 | A pre-COP meeting of ministers was held with 100 delegations and 70 ministers attending, which was noted as the largest such preparatory meeting to date. |
| November 30 2023 | COP28 Climate Change Conference begins in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with Sultan Al Jaber as conference president |
| November 30 2023 | A 'loss and damage' fund was agreed upon to compensate poor states for climate change effects. The United Arab Emirates and Germany each pledged $100 million, with additional contributions from the United Kingdom ($75 million), United States ($24.5 million), and Japan ($10 million), bringing the total to $430 million on the first day of the summit. |
| November 27 2023 | Centre for Climate Reporting and BBC News reported leaked documents indicating UAE's intent to use COP28 as a platform for discussing fossil fuel deals with fifteen countries, including potential LNG opportunities with China. |
| November 21 2023 | Sultan Al Jaber made controversial remarks during a live online event, asserting no scientific basis for phasing out fossil fuels to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, drawing criticism from climate experts and UN officials. |
| November 15 2023 | The United States and China announced a joint agreement to triple global renewable energy use by 2030, including a commitment to addressing greenhouse gases, though the deal was criticized for not compelling China to phase out coal-fired power plants. |
| November 7 2023 | AFP investigation revealed leaked documents showing McKinsey was using its advisory position to COP28 hosts to push interests of oil and gas clients, potentially undermining climate goals by recommending continued fossil fuel investments. |
| September 2023 | The United Nations published the first two-year 'global stocktake' assessment of global progress in slowing climate change, which concluded that a phase-out of fossil fuels is necessary and provided key insights into current climate action trajectories. |
| September 2023 | FairSquare, a UK-based human rights group, released a report alleging migrant workers were exposed to dangerously hot weather and humidity while preparing the conference facility for COP28, with workers from Asia and Africa working outdoors in high temperatures despite a midday ban. |
| August 2023 | The Guardian revealed that the UAE had failed to report its methane emissions to the UN for nearly a decade. |
| August 14 2023 | The trial court judge ruled in favor of the youth plaintiffs, finding that Montana's fossil fuel policies violated their constitutional environmental rights. |
| August 4 2023 | First International Resources registered under the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act to represent Masdar, with the goal of reinforcing attitudes about the UAE's role in addressing climate change. The UAE agreed to pay a monthly retainer fee of $100,000 to the PR firm. |
| August 1 2023 | UAE announced that environmental activists would be allowed to assemble peacefully at the summit. |
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