Judge keeps climate change class action alive, as duty to children enshrined in law

Ashurst 2021-07-08 1:20 pm By Miklos Bolza | Sydney

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The federal Minister for the Environment has lost a bid to declass a class action brought over climate change risks from an expansion of the Whitehaven coal mine, with a judge making a declaration that the government owes a duty to all Australian children to protect them from global warming.

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