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A group of young people from Montana, a western US state, has won an important environmental case in court:the judge he thought the law in force is unconstitutional which does not provide - indeed prohibits - from take into consideration the polluting impact of fossil fuel projects at the time of their approval.“The government is violating the rights of young people,” the ruling reads, “and the state's greenhouse gas emissions have proven to be a substantial factor in cause negative climate impacts on the environment, harming the plaintiffs."From now on, taking into account the judge's decision, Montana, on whose territory there are 5 thousand gas wells, 4 thousand oil wells, four oil refineries and six coal mines, before approving or renewing projects that have to generate emissions, will have to evaluate its effect on the Planet. The 16 young people - aged between 5 and 22 - who dragged the State to court in 2020 argue that the unrestricted authorizations grant...

It is often believed that energy from petroleum sources is much cheaper than renewable sources:a belief that forgets a non-negligible detail, that of the enormous public subsidies that extractive activities and the multinationals that lead them receive from states in the form of direct or indirect financing.This river of money continues to flow, and indeed, in 2022 - despite the much vaunted green transition - it set a new record.In fact, in the past year, only the G20 countries spent 1.4 trillion dollars to finance fossil fuels.The enormous figure was estimated by a relationship of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), adding direct subsidies, investments by state-owned enterprises and loans by public financial institutions.According to the data collected, the twenty largest economies in the world have far exceeded the amount spent on fossil fuels in previous years, spending more than double compared to 2019. At the time, moreover, the "energy...

Oil giant Shell has won its appeal against a landmark climate ruling issued by a Dutch court in 2021.The court, following accusations made by the NGO Milieudefensie, had ordered the fossil multinational to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels.However, the appeals court ruled that although Shell has a “special responsibility” to reduce its emissions as a major oil company, such reduction cannot be imposed as a specific legal target. Three years ago, a verdict issued by a court in The Hague, the company's registered office, had sanctioned how Shell's sustainability policy - which had established a 20% reduction in emissions by 2030 - was not very "concrete".For this reason the company was required to comply with the provisions of the 2015 Paris Agreement, imposing a 45% reduction compared to 2019 emissions by 2030.The decision came following a complaint from the environmentalist association Milieudefensie, member of the internat...