(2 Dec 2024)
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The Hague, Netherlands – 02 December 2024
1. Various of climate activists protesting
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Shiva Gouden, head of Pacific at Greenpeace Australia:
"The advisory opinion for the Pacific people means a significant lot. We’ve got the whole world here to discuss about the climate crisis. These processes can be frustrating for many but we have to try every avenue so that we can protect what is so dear to us — which is our cultures, which is our languages, which is our lands, and all of our livelihoods and lives."
3. Various of protesters holding banners and chanting
4. Various of protesters holding banners reading (English) "Climate Justice Now" and "Power to the People"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shiva Gouden, head of Pacific at Greenpeace Australia:
“One of the questions, of the two questions that have been taken to court, include historical responsibilities and that includes reparations. There will be countries who will be putting forth their cases, especially in the Pacific, about historic responsibilities in terms of reparations and payments of countries that have actually caused the climate crisis in the developing world. And for us Pacific Islanders, we also need the finances that is required to adapt, mitigate and also counter the losses and damages that we incur due to the climate crisis."
6. Mid of protesters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Pia Hollstein, Founder and board member of climate activist group Klimaseniorinnen:
"I belong to the board of the Klimaseniorinnen, we won our big claim in Strausbourg because countries who do not do enough against climate change, they violate human rights."
8. Mid of Hollstein chanting, holding a banner
9. Mid of protesters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Pia Hollstein, Founder and board member of climate activist group Klimaseniorinnen:
"We work close together with the global youth, the climate youth, we have the same goal. We have different ways. We took the legal way. And we won. And in the future we fight together."
11. Protesters waving flags
12. Mid of protesters watching screen outside court
STORYLINE:
Protesters gathered outside the United Nations top court calling for "climate justice" as a landmark climate change case opened on Monday.
The International Court of Justice took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change that they feel endangers their very survival.
The nations demand that major polluting countries be held to account.
After years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters, the U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice last year for an opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.”
Any decision by the court would be non-binding advice and couldn’t directly force wealthy nations into action to help struggling countries.
Yet it would be more than just a powerful symbol since it could be the basis for other legal actions, including domestic lawsuits.
In the decade up to 2023, sea levels have risen by a global average of around 4.3 centimeters (1.7 inches), with parts of the Pacific rising higher still.
The world has also warmed 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times because of the burning of fossil fuels.
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