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Youth activists applaud UN court's climate change advisory ruling

Youth climate change activists celebrated as the United Nations' highest court issued a significant advisory opinion on Wednesday stating that countries could breach international law if they neglect to implement measures to safeguard the planet against climate change.

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00:00Youth climate change activists celebrated as the United Nations highest court issued
00:05a significant advisory opinion on Wednesday stating that countries could breach international
00:10law if they neglect to implement measures to safeguard the planet against climate change.
00:16I think the language on fossil fuels is extremely strong and that phasing out fossil fuels and
00:23not doing that is an internationally wrongful act and that's extremely strong and that gives
00:29campaigners, litigators, policy makers a lot more of a stronger tool domestically and internationally.
00:35The case was spearheaded by the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu with support from over 130
00:41countries.
00:42I think the most obvious one was the fossil fuel language around this. The discussion around
00:50the simple use or the licensing of fossil fuels and extraction alone already empowers
00:58so many campaigns pushing for fossil fuel phase out in different ways, regional or international.
01:05And that's what this advisory opinion has ultimately done is strengthen those campaigns and strengthen
01:08those demands in these spaces. I think that was the more obvious and most surprising one
01:15I would say. My ears are in disbelief as I've been telling everyone. It's a good day for the movement.
01:21All UN member states including major greenhouse gas emitters like the United States and China are
01:28participants in the court. Climate activists gathered outside the packed courtroom displaying
01:33banners that proclaimed courts have spoken, the law is clear, states must act now.
01:39We're here for the center of the country.
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