US EditionDutch court to rule on climate change case brought by Caribbean islanders
The Hague District Court ruled the Dutch government discriminated against Bonaire's 20,000 residents by failing to take timely climate measures and ordered binding emissions targets.
- On Wednesday, the Hague District Court will decide whether the Netherlands must do more to protect Bonaire, after 8 residents backed by Greenpeace sued for concrete measures.
- During court hearings last year, some of Bonaire's 27,000 residents said climate change effects have made life 'unbearable' and Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit warned the sea could swallow a fifth of the island by century's end.
- Plaintiffs are seeking a Bonaire protection plan by April 2027 and CO2 reduction to zero by 2040, arguing major polluters bear historic liability as The Hague District Court set precedent in Urgenda.
- Government lawyers argue the Netherlands' national administration is pursuing greenhouse gas reductions, while climate planning for Bonaire remains an "autonomous task" of local authorities.
- The Netherlands is famed for its flood defenses, but campaigners argue these do not cover overseas territory Bonaire, while Greenpeace calls Wednesday's case a potential global legal precedent after the ICJ ruling.
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A court of first instance in The Hague has ordered the Dutch State to draw up a plan to protect the inhabitants of the island of Bonaire — the former colony of the Netherlands in the Caribbean and today part of its territory as a special municipality — from the effects of climate change. The ruling, issued on Wednesday, determines that the inhabitants of Bonaire have been treated differently from the Dutch residents of Europe. The case has been …
Netherlands court orders government to implement climate measures for Bonaire
The Hague District Court ruled on Wednesday that the Netherlands has failed to meet its international obligations on climate change. The court ordered the government to adopt adequate measures to better protect Bonaire, a Dutch Caribbean island, within 18 months. The court concluded that the government had violated the right to private and family life of the residents of Bonaire under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). …
Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Dutch court in the Hague has ordered the government to take steps to protect the Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of human-caused climate change, according to Dutchnews.com. Actually, they ordered the entire Dutch government to get its act together on fighting climate change, including in Europe. The ruling has implications far beyond Bonaire or the Netherlands, since it could influence the Court of J…
On Wednesday, a Dutch court ordered the Netherlands to better protect one of its islands from climate change and to set binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the entire national economy. ...
Recognizing that the inhabitants of the Caribbean island were "treated differently for no valid reason", a Dutch court ordered the state, on Wednesday 28 January, to act against rising waters and global warming. "A precedent of global importance," Greenpeace says.
Dutch government ordered to protect residents on Caribbean island of Bonaire from climate change
A court has ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the devastating effects of climate change — a sweeping victory for the islanders.
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