On the case. From the Commonwealth Club of california, this is an hour. Our program tonight is our constitution, our climate and our children. Is there a right not to be harmed by Climate Change . And our speakers tonight are a distinguished group with phil gregory, partner, cojet petrie and macarthur llp, tia hatten, youth plaintiff in constitution and public trust case and julia olsen, executive director, our Childrens Trust. So please welcome our wonderful panel and greet them for us. [ applause ] and well ask phil to begin. Well, we just saw for those of you who havent heard, an amazing judicial feat today where the ninth circuit in a 30 opinion kept the temporary restraining order nationwide in place over the travel ban and that is [ cheers and applause ] its wonderful news and an excellent example about how our courts who serve as the third branch of government check the other two branches, the congress and the executive when they overstep their bounds, but courts dont just stop
Translation which would allow us to reduce very significantly the risks involved with Climate Change. It fixes very longterm but necessary ambitious skills and it means that the reduction of greenhouse gasses emissions is absolutely everybodys responsibility and it will be reviewed every five years, and each review must be more ambitious. It recognises the need to cooperate on damages in a permanent and preeminent way. It also foresees the necessity for everybody to have access to Sustainable Development with the necessary resources to implement that and it also foresees that the 100 billion which is foreseen for 2020 should be a ceiling and that a new ceiling will have to be determined at the very soonest before 2020. This text is to reinforce and strengthen confidence between the parties thanks to a reinforced framework of transparency, strengthening everybodys responsibility and basing ourselves on present resources. It foresees a fiveyear cycle of review which will allow us to reac
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