Lawyers for the "People's Climate Case" said they would appeal. The plaintiffs were "already being impacted by climate change, already incurring damage," their lawyer Roda Verheyen told AFP at the time. "Since we launched the case, impacts of climate change got worse and worse," she said Wednesday. "On the contrary, the Court accepts that climate change is impacting everybody but refrains to engage with the facts of climate change and its human rights impacts." There are currently around 1,000 cases brought against governments across the world related to climate change and habitat loss, according to a database compiled by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Source: Bangkok Post May 22, 2019 15:00 UTC