Policy brief: "Duty of care"

By Claire Roumet
Last week I found out that most court cases run by citizens against their governments in the world are based on this common law term [1].

States have the duty to take care of us, and of their future citizens. And a government’s inaction against climate change is, as a matter of fact, a criminal offence, as the International Court of Justice in The Hague just reminded through the highly-publicised URGENDA case [2].

This case is the symbol of a wide movement of (…)

Fuente: ENERGY CITIES
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