Interview: How to sue governments over climate inaction (and win)

Marjan Minnesma, the director of Urgenda, talks to ENDS about the green group’s historic legal victory over the Dutch government’s climate plans and why similar challenges are unlikely to succeed in other areas of green policy.

by Claudia Delpero
Marjan Minnesma: “My two lawyers and myself were basically the only people who believed it was possible”
Marjan Minnesma: “My two lawyers and myself were basically the only people who believed it was possible”

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