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Dutch Court orders Netherlands Government cut CO2 emissions by 25 percent by 2020 | Climate Citizen

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A Dutch court in a landmark legal case has just handed down a verdict that the Netherlands Government has the legal duty to take measures against #climate change. Further, the court ordered that a 25% reduction of CO2 emissions, based on 1990 levels, must be accomplished by 2020 by the Dutch government in accordance with IPCC scientific recommendations for industrial countries.

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Sue Higginson, Principal Solicitor for the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) NSW, said that the same legal arguments are unlikely to be used in Australia, “Dutch civil laws are much more specific in their terms than Australian laws.” she said.

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With Australia, such a case would be much less straightforward as we do not have the incorporation of international human rights or general duty of care directly in our constitution or legal framework.

2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record | NASA

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The sea ice cap of the Arctic appeared to reach its annual maximum winter extent on Feb. 25, 2015, according to data from the NSIDC. […] this year’s maximum extent was the smallest on the satellite record and also one of the earliest.

Average CO2 levels rise past nasty threshold | NYT

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The average carbon dioxide reading surpassed 400 parts per million at the research facility atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii […] The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html