THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY BY GREEN PEACE FONDATION HULOT OXFAM AGAINST STATE

USPA NEWS - The administrative court of Paris, by a judgment on the "Affaire du Siecle" (The Case of the Century) of February 3, 2021, France recognizes the existence of ecological damage linked to climate change. He considers that the partial failure of the French state to meet the targets it has set for itself in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions engages its responsibility. In March 2019, the environmental defense associations « Oxfam France », « Notre Affaire à tous », the Fondation pour la Nature et l'Homme and Greenpeace France lodged four requests before the administrative court of Paris to have the deficiency of the The French State in the fight against climate change, to obtain its condemnation to repair not only their moral damage but also the ecological damage and to put an end to the failures of the State to its obligations. "The State has made commitments on reducing greenhouse gas effects, and in two months, an injunction to bring policies to act, for the State, from the Administrative Tribunal" said Cecile Dufflot, Director of OXFAM France which assigned the French State for 1 symbolic euro, to the Administrative Court, for faulty lack of climate inaction “

The administrative court of Paris, by a judgment on the "Affaire du Siecle" (The Case of the Century) of February 3, 2021, France recognizes the existence of ecological damage linked to climate change. He considers that the partial failure of the French state to meet the targets it has set for itself in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions engages its responsibility. In March 2019, the environmental defense associations « Oxfam France », « Notre Affaire à tous », the Fondation pour la Nature et l'Homme and Greenpeace France lodged four requests before the administrative court of Paris to have the deficiency of the The French State in the fight against climate change, to obtain its condemnation to repair not only their moral damage but also the ecological damage and to put an end to the failures of the State to its obligations. "The State has made commitments on reducing greenhouse gas effects, and in two months, an injunction to bring policies to act, for the State, from the Administrative Tribunal" said Cecile Dufflot, Director of OXFAM France which assigned the French State for 1 symbolic euro, to the Administrative Court, for faulty lack of climate inaction “----------------------------------------------------- Three years later, the court gave OXFAM and other environmental associations fighting against climate change, including the Association whose members protest with a young person once a month, and have been since “¦A dozen, of Green Activists of the strikers for "hunger for a possible future" expressed their anger, in front of the Administrative Court-House, during the holding of the trial of the Affair of the Century "Indeed, 150 people from all walks of life have started a hunger strike (in the form of young people), since November 2020, in France, Belgium and other countries, to demand the release of the necessary means for ecological transition but also for health, education and employment. (Source: Activists on the site )

OXFAM FRANCE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO WIN A JUDGMENT OF TRIBUNAL AGAINST THE STATE FOR CLIMATE INACTION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- President Macron said in 2017, "I think this action will get nowhere, because I do not have this kind of approach" "The decision is 38 pages long, which are very dense and explain the point of view of scientists, state action, and citizens. A symbolic € 1 was requested, in the name of the symbolic moral damage of the 2.3 million citizens (who participated in this legal action against the State). This decision is watched all over the world. »Explains Cecile Dufflot, Director of OXFAM France. She continues her ecological argument "Carbon 4 has shown that if everyone did their part, we would achieve 1/4 of the objectives from the behavior of citizens. And the rest of 3/4 of the way has to be done by the state, to act effectively in climate change, for transport, consumption, etc---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The (very upcoming) Climate Law is a gulf between what the climate citizen convention, and the decrees ... how to take up the proposals? For example, SUV vehicles will be reduced for efficiency, but this is a message. The proposals were emptied of their substance ... The citizens' climate convention was filed, 1 month after our submission of the Affair of the Century, after the carbon tax. Out of 150 people to work together, they lead to almost the same thing as the NGOs, because the French citizens once they understand the stakes, they provide very good results, they are therefore in a hurry to change the measures against the change climate “concludes Cecile Dufflot, Director OXFAM France, on the TV channel, TMC interviewed by Yann Barthes, French Journalist, also anchor of Le Petit Quotidien, Leading Talk Show)--------------------------------------------- She responds to Yann Barthes asking her, what will be the next step and what she now expects from the state, since this legal victory. Cecile Dufflot answers him "It is one of the pillars of society, of justice, We will wait to see if the State if the State appeals against this decision, which is very strong, the goal is not to condemn them but to incite them to act. "------------------- Yann Barthes continues the interview by asking him: "Have you heard from the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron? Cecile Dufflot replied: "If I could send him a message, I would ask him why a human being younger than me is not able to feel the climate emergency" replied, Cecile Dufflot, she then adds "I have him sent a letter of congratulations when he said he was acting on the export guarantee at the level of companies, which produce polluting productions. "