Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
One of South Korea 's two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia's first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country's government of failing to protect citizens from the effects of the worsening, human-caused planetary emergency.
said that based on current policies and practices, the world is on track for 2.9°C of warming by the end of the century. A summary of the lawsuit notes that South Korea is the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, and that the government is constitutionally obligated to protect Koreans from the climate emergency.
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