Developing countries could sue for climate action: Study

A new study out says vulnerable countries could sue the United States and other industrialized nations for action on climate change.

A road in the Roseau area, Dominica, is littered with debris,
uprooted vegetation and felled poles and power lines from
Hurricane Maria, September 19, 2017.

The report, published by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), based in the United Kingdom, says small island nations and other threatened countries have the right and likely the procedural means to pursue an inter-state case before the United Nations’ International Court of Justice.

“Some of these countries are getting increasingly desperate,” Christoph Schwarte, the paper’s lead author, said. With little movement toward a new global climate change treaty, he said, many leaders are looking for ways to make the United States and others understand the threats they face from rising sea levels, droughts and storm surges.

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