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Climate and the Law


Environmental groups taking provincial government to court over attack on Hamilton’s official plan

 Jan 9, 2022 – Ecojustice, on behalf of Environmental Defence, has served the Ontario government with a notice of application for a judicial review of its unilaterally imposed changes to Hamilton’s official plan.
Read the Ecojustice media release – here
Listen to the CBC, Metro Morning interview with Phil Pothen – here


Written Submission to Standing Committee on
Bill 23 – More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022

November 15, 2022 -Canadian Environmental Law Association

CELA has submitted written comments to the Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy regarding Bill 23 – More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022

To download the submission click here.


For Our Kids Toronto team members Mika Gang, Brianne Whyte and Laura Thomas present the seven youth with a card of gratitude and support at a rally last Sunday. The card was signed by 170 parents from across Canada. Photo by Chris Kemp

The youth lawsuit against the Ontario government’s climate plan wrapped up Wednesday, September 21 after three days of submissions. Now we wait for the judgement.

Here’s a Mom’s viewpoint from Bryanne Whyte of For Our Kids, one of several intervenor groups which had status at the court hearing. From the National Observer. Read the article.
#GenClimateAction: Story Update


A #GenClimateAction Invitation from Ecojustice

From Danielle Gallant: a lawyer for Ecojustice:

#GenClimateAction

“The run-up to September always has me craving fresh notebooks and pens. There’s just something so hopeful about the start of a new school year.  

But this September will look a little different for our clients Sophia, Zoe, Shaelyn, Shelby, Alex, Madison, and Beze.

That’s because they’ve taken the Ontario government to court over its weakened climate target. Their case, Mathur et. al. v. Her Majesty in Right of Ontario, has not been without its twists and turns so I’m glad to say that the hearing is finally taking place in Toronto on September 12–14. 

“class schedule” 

Let’s Sue Big Oil – This project is convened by West Coast Environmental Law.

tHEY KNEW. THEY PROFITED. THEY NEED TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.

For decades, oil and gas corporations have known that burning fossil fuels would cause the heat waves, wildfires, drought and flooding that we’re now experiencing in BC.

These multinational companies spent millions to deceive, deny and distract us on their way to billions in profit by preventing action on climate change.

July 20, 2022

VANCOUVER/Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – The Sue Big Oil campaign applauds the City of Vancouver’s historic vote this afternoon [6-5] to allocate funds towards a future class action lawsuit by local governments against global oil and gas companies for climate costs. 

Find out more visit – Let’s Sue Big Oil


Youth Climate Case Moves to Top Tribunal in European Court

July 3, 2022 – the Energy Mix

The European Court of Human Rights said Thursday that a complaint against 33 countries filed by six young Portuguese climate activists will be examined by the tribunal’s top panel of judges, a move reflecting the case’s legal significance.

The activists, three of whom are under 18, turned to the court almost two years ago in an effort to hold European governments accountable for their allegedly inadequate efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, 


Ontario’s emissions don’t have ‘decisive impact’ on Canada’s climate goals,
province argues in youth legal fight

May 11, 2022 – National Observer – Morgan Sharp

The Doug Ford government’s latest response to a lawsuit arguing its climate policy is unconstitutional includes testimony from an academic who doubts basic climate science and an economist who argues Ontario’s emissions “do not have a decisive impact” on whether Canada meets its climate goals.

Affidavits from York University physics professor William van Wijngaarden and Philip Cross, a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, were filed with an Ontario court Friday. The documents mark the latest round of activity in a case the Progressive Conservatives have sought to delay and dismiss for more than half their term in office.


The Essential Advocate, Philippe Sands Makes the Case for a New International Crime Called Ecocide

December 22, 2021 – By Katie Surma – Inside Climate News

… Since Glasgow, analysts have warned that the world is now on a pathway to a dangerous 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming, manifesting itself in weather extremes, biodiversity collapse, acidification of oceans and soil erosion—all affecting the health and wellbeing of humans and other species.  


Drowning nations disappointed with outcome of U.N. climate summit may have one move left: Lawsuits

Nov 15, 2021 – Anthony Faiola – Washington Post

The islands in the Funafuti atoll

The cluster of island nations — many of them low lying, with rising tides already licking further into shore — may be the biggest losers of the Glasgow summit. 


Indigenous Women in Peru Seek to Turn the Tables on Big Oil, Asserting ‘Rights of Nature’ to Fight Epic Spills

Nov 5, 2021 – Katie Surma – Inside Climate News

Aerial scenes from the Northern Amazon from the town of Iqitos to the Amazon oil town of Trompederos, Peru, June 11, 2007. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images
Aerial scenes from the Northern Amazon from the town of Iqitos to the Amazon oil town of Trompederos, Peru, June 11, 2007. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

In Peru’s northern Amazon rainforest, across a million acres known as Lot 1AB, a parade of foreign oil companies have for over 50 years drilled, spilled crude and dumped billions of gallons of toxic “production water” on the once pristine land.


Germany must tighten climate law to protect young people’s future, court rules

April 29, 2021 – Reuters – Thomas Escritt

Germany must update its climate law by the end of next year to set out how it will bring carbon emissions down to almost zero by 2050, its top court ruled on Thursday, siding with a young woman who argued rising sea levels would engulf her family farm.


Youth-led climate lawsuit wins ‘historic legal victory’

Newmarket Today by Orillia Matters staff – March 27, 2021

NEWS RELEASE
ECOJUSTICE
A court has dismissed Ontario’s attempt to overturn a key decision in a youth-led climate lawsuit, solidifying a historic legal victory and paving the way for seven young people to have their day in court. more here


Yours To Protect – For Immediate Release: March 04, 2021

Statement from Environmental Defence, Ontario Nature and Ecojustice on Bill 257 regarding legislation to exempt MZOs from planning laws and policy

New law would allow environmentally destructive projects to go forward even if they contravene basic planning rules. Full statement – here


How youth-led climate litigation is making Canadian legal history

Ecojustice - Canada's largest environmental law charity
Ecojustice | Canada’s largest environmental law charity

Seven young people are taking the Ford government to court because its watered down climate action plan will lead to widespread illness and death, violating Ontarians’ Charter-protected rights to life, liberty, and security of the person. As young people, the applicants say they and people like them will bear the costs of climate inaction more than previous generations.

On April 15, 2020, the government filed a motion to strike the case, arguing it should not proceed to a full hearing. The youth applicants countered this motion in July, arguing that they deserved their day in Court.

This led to a historic win. For the first time in Canadian history, a court recognized that climate change has the potential to violate Charter rights and gave the youth the greenlight to move ahead to a full hearing.

Meet two of the youth and find out why they are doing this – webinar here


Fighting to uphold federal authority to lead unified, national action on the climate emergency

The science unequivocally asserts that climate threats will accelerate in the decades to come. This means young people are especially at risk and will be the ones to bear the costs of the climate emergency, including widespread illness and death, more than previous generations. Ecojustice.ca

In order to ensure provinces across the country do their fair share to tackle the climate emergency, the federal government introduced Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act — a backstop aimed at provinces that fail to implement a comparable emissions reduction strategy of their own.

Courts in Saskatchewan and Ontario upheld the constitutionality of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act.  Meanwhile, Alberta’s court delivered a split (4-1) outlier decision that sided with the province.

Ecojustice lawyers will represent the David Suzuki Foundation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation as interveners before the Supreme Court of Canada hearings on this matter.


LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

Our Children's Trust

Fifteen youth plaintiffs, ages 10 to 19 years old, filed the lawsuit against their federal government in the Federal Court of Canada, alleging that the Canadian government causes, contributes to and allows dangerous levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and is thus responsible for the specific, individualized climate change impacts they are experiencing. Find out more – here


JULIANA v. UNITED STATES

In 2015, 21 youth, and organizational plaintiff Earth Guardians, filed their constitutional climate lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, against the U.S. government. Their complaint asserts that, through the government’s affirmative actions that cause climate change, it has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, as well as failed to protect essential public trust resources. Find out more – here



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