内容摘要：to cut carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels.

to cut carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels.

Experts said the case has setin the fight to hold major polluters accountable for

that are currently underway and opens the door for future litigation,” Sebastien Duyck, an attorney with the Center for International Environmental Law, told The Associated Press.Roda Verheyen, Lliuya’s attorney, called the court’s decision “a milestone and will give a tailwind to climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, and thus to the move away from fossil fuels worldwide” even though her client lost.RWE argued that the lawsuit was legally inadmissible and that it set a dangerous precedent by holding individual emitters accountable for global climate change. It insists climate solutions should be addressed through state and international policies, not the courts.

In a statement after the court hearing concluded, energy company said: “The plaintiff was unable to provide evidence that there was a serious imminent adverse impact on his property.”The case had been going on for a decade. Lliuya, who was not in court Wednesday, can’t appeal the ruling further. Judges and experts from Germany visited Peru in 2022.

Quell reported from The Hague, Netherlands.

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Bisonette described how past leaders, recognizing the need for enough food to subsist in their homeland, strategically secured the right to hunt, fish and gather wild rice in certain areas as part of the 19th century treaties that ceded land to settlers.But for a long time after that, the state of Wisconsin curtailed tribes’ treaty rights and in some cases even arrested tribal members for participating in activities integral to their heritage. Eventually a 1983 Supreme Court decision affirmed the Ojibwe people’s rights, but opposition flared up. Angry and misinformed locals showed up at lakes to harass tribal members. They slashed tires, shouted racist slurs and shot at spearfishers.

Auno Barber, left, and Mark Ojibway look in shallow water while preparing to spearfish at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)Auno Barber, left, and Mark Ojibway look in shallow water while preparing to spearfish at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)