People power, good sense and the courts change the game in Holland

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eople power bound by sheer good sense and backed by the authority of the court system has had a landmark success for Dutch climate activists.

But it hasn’t been just for the people of Holland, the success for the Urgenda NGO is reverberating around the world.

Together with 900 citizens the Urgenda Foundation filed the Climate Case against the Dutch Government just last month the NGO won a lawsuit against the Dutch State, forcing it to take more measures against climate change.

In what was something of a break with tradition, bought about by the shorter than expected Test being played in England, John Cleary, who normally host a religious show on the ABC “Sunday Nights”, turned his attention to climate change and interviewed a representative of Urgenda.

Listen to the ABC interview here.