A few months ago about
900 Dutch citizens filed a lawsuit against their government saying that the government had failed to effectively cut greenhouse gases in the pursuit of ameliorating climate change.
They won:
A judge in The Hague said the state must “ensure that the Dutch emissions in the year 2020 will be at least 25 percent lower than those in 1990.”
The ruling was a victory for the Urgenda Foundation, an environmental group that filed the lawsuit on behalf of nearly 900 Dutch people. They said that the government has a duty to protect its citizens against looming dangers, including the effects of climate change on this low-lying country, which is threatened by rising sea levels.
How about that?