Demanding Bigger Emissions Cuts, Korean Teens Sue Government
- Youth group challenges South Korea’s climate law in court
- Temperatures to rise by 3 degrees or more under current target
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High school senior Kim Yujin and 29 other young activists in South Korea are suing the government, claiming that parliament’s recent revision to the nation’s climate-change law doesn’t go far enough to protect their future.
The students’ complaint to the Constitutional Court in Seoul argues that their fundamental rights, including the right to live and a clean environment, have been infringed by the nation’s climate-change law, which they say fails to set specific targets to prevent global temperatures from rising.