SYDNEY - An Australian court on Tuesday threw out a landmark legal ruling that the country's environment minister had a duty to protect children from climate change.
Anjali Sharma, 17, who launched the legal action in 2020, said the minister's successful appeal had left the students"devastated".Burning coal makes bushfires and floods more catastrophic and more deadly. Something needs to change," she said. "We don't have the scope for the successful climate change litigation that we see in Europe because Australia has a constitution that, quite intentionally, contains no human rights," he told AFP.
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