Climate crisis by Orla Kelleher
The Anthropocene Judgments Project: Futureproofing the Common Law , 2023
For this hypothetical judgment, we envisage a context on the island of Ireland in 2033 where over... more For this hypothetical judgment, we envisage a context on the island of Ireland in 2033 where over 1/5 of the landmass which existed in 2020 is now underwater due to the rising of sea levels. This is due to the climate crisis. Villages such as Barna in Galway on the West Coast of Ireland have been particularly badly affected, with significant levels of homelessness, as well as unemployment from lost land and resources, caused by the crisis. Children and young people have also been disproportionately affected for numerous reasons varying from trauma due to displacement, and lost income.
In 2022, Ireland’s climate governance framework, which commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030 relative to 2018 levels (a 44.5% reduction by 2030 relative to 1990 levels), and carbon neutrality by 2050, is patently inadequate to make a fair share contribution to the global temperature goals of limiting global heating to +1.5°C and well below 2°C as an outer limit.
In this hypothetical case we envisage a group of children coming together similar to the children in the Juliana case in the United States , or the Sacchi case before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (the implementing body of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC]). Included in the submissions of these young plaintiffs would be stories similar to those presented in Saachi – stories outlining the difficulties in their everyday lives due to the effects of the climate crisis.
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Climate crisis by Orla Kelleher
In 2022, Ireland’s climate governance framework, which commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030 relative to 2018 levels (a 44.5% reduction by 2030 relative to 1990 levels), and carbon neutrality by 2050, is patently inadequate to make a fair share contribution to the global temperature goals of limiting global heating to +1.5°C and well below 2°C as an outer limit.
In this hypothetical case we envisage a group of children coming together similar to the children in the Juliana case in the United States , or the Sacchi case before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (the implementing body of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC]). Included in the submissions of these young plaintiffs would be stories similar to those presented in Saachi – stories outlining the difficulties in their everyday lives due to the effects of the climate crisis.
In 2022, Ireland’s climate governance framework, which commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030 relative to 2018 levels (a 44.5% reduction by 2030 relative to 1990 levels), and carbon neutrality by 2050, is patently inadequate to make a fair share contribution to the global temperature goals of limiting global heating to +1.5°C and well below 2°C as an outer limit.
In this hypothetical case we envisage a group of children coming together similar to the children in the Juliana case in the United States , or the Sacchi case before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (the implementing body of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC]). Included in the submissions of these young plaintiffs would be stories similar to those presented in Saachi – stories outlining the difficulties in their everyday lives due to the effects of the climate crisis.