A complaint to the European Commission over NZ’s potentially broken climate promises in the EU trade agreement looks strong. But the legal threshold is high.
- Associate Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
The recent climate case win in the European Court of Human Rights by a group of older Swiss women has real implications for a number of current cases before New Zealand courts.
By allowing a case against local greenhouse gas emitters to go ahead, the Supreme Court of New Zealand has opened the door to a new front in climate law – one that takes tikanga Māori into account.
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