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    proposed legislation detailing how the European Union plans to reach this target. The European Commission's climate change strategy, launched in 2020, is...
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    implement climate change mitigation and an energy transition in the 21st century, the European Green Deal being one of these. The European Union commissioner...
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    2020, the European Parliament voted to support the deal as well, with requests for higher ambition. A year later, the European Climate Law was passed...
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    European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel...
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    society at the national, European and global level. Its aim is to promote climate and energy related policies that press Europe and other key global players...
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    Climate change litigation, also known as climate litigation, is an emerging body of environmental law using legal practice to set case law precedent to...
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    That same year, the European Parliament declared a "climate and environmental emergency". The European Commission presented its European Green Deal with the...
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    Greta Thunberg (category Swedish climate activists)
    attended an extraordinary meeting of the European Parliament's Environment Committee to talk about the European Climate Law. There she declared that she considered...
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    Frans Timmermans (category Dutch European Commissioners)
    Executive Vice President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal and European Commissioner for Climate Action in the von der Leyen Commission...
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  • biggest cotton producers in Europe. Greece accounts for almost 80% of the European Union's total cotton production. Climate change is set to reduce the...
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  • issues in the European Union include the environmental issues identified by the European Union as well as its constituent states. The European Union has several...
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    Accords or the Paris Climate Accords, is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, adaptation...
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    features — its geography, climate, and flora. Politically, nine of the southern European countries form the EU Med Group. Southern Europe also loosely corresponds...
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    from the sea result in the dominance of the continental climate, which is prevalent in European and Asian Russia except for the tundra and the extreme...
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  • cooperation in the European Union (EU) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The European Climate Initiative finances cross-border climate action projects...
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    implement climate change mitigation and an energy transition in the 21st century, the European Green Deal being one of these. The European Union commissioner...
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    country in Europe with 13 different Köppen climates. The four most dominant climates in the country include: The hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa), the...
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    Parties (COP 24) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The EU has its own European Climate Law, which states that by 2050 the EU will need to...
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    European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presented the European Green Deal. This Green Deal is a growth strategy to transform the EU in a climate neutral...
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    In France, climate change has caused some the greatest annual temperature increases registered in any country in Europe. The 2019 heat wave saw record...
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    Ecocide (category Environmental law)
    "The Law | Eradicating Ecocide". eradicatingecocide.com. Retrieved 8 November 2015. "Initiative details – European Citizens' Initiative – European Commission"...
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  • Climate change has caused temperatures in the world to rise in the last few decades, and temperatures in Europe have risen twice as fast as the average...
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    the European Union describes the geographic features of the European Union (EU), a multinational polity that occupies a large portion of Europe and covers...
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    the European Union European Climate Change Programme ICAP (International Carbon Action Partnership) Mitigation of global warming Single European Sky "EU...
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  • Generation Climate Europe (GCE) is a coalition of major European youth organizations aiming to advocate together toward the European institutions for...
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    cross border issues of air and water pollution, and man-made climate change. In the common law, the primary protection was found in the tort of nuisance...
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    Europol, officially the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, is the law enforcement agency of the European Union (EU). Established in...
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    Estonia, Hungary, and Poland disagreed. In June 2021, the European Union passed a European Climate Law with targets of 55% GHG emissions reduction by 2030 and...
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    State of the Netherlands v. Urgenda Foundation (category Climate change in the European Union)
    scientists to avert harmful climate change, was endangering the human rights of Dutch citizens as set by national and European Union laws. The initial ruling...
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    Milieudefensie v Royal Dutch Shell (category Climate change in the European Union)
    environmental law related to climate change: while previous lawsuits against governments have prevailed for enforcing a more effective climate policy, this...
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