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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11343

26 June 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 27
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) climate
Court forces Netherlands to do more for climate

Brussels, 25/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - In a completely unprecedented development a Dutch court has enjoined the Netherlands to do more to address climate change.

A decision handed down by a court in The Hague on Wednesday 24 June has ordered the Dutch government to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions “by at least 25% by 2020, compared with 1990” when the Netherlands had already set itself a reduction target of between 15% and 17%.

The decision follows from the action lodged by...

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