Australian court rejects climate ruling

An Australian court yesterday threw out a landmark legal ruling that the nation’s environment minister had a duty to protect children from climate change.
Last year’s legal win by a group of high-school students had been hailed by environmental groups as a potential legal weapon to fight fossil fuel projects, but the federal court found in favor of an appeal by Australian Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley, deciding she did not have to weigh the harm climate change would inflict on children when assessing the approval of new fossil fuel projects.
The judgement overturned a ruling in July last year by

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