Australia top court rules against coal mine expansion, citing climate harm
- Campaigners say ruling sets a ‘binding national precedent’ requiring climate damage be weighed when fossil fuel projects are considered.
- Australia’s highest court has ruled against the expansion of a major coal mine, finding that planning authorities had failed to ensure that emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases would be “minimised to the greatest extent practicable”.
- Environmental campaigners called Wednesday’s court decision the first climate case to reach the country’s highest court.
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- Campaigners say ruling sets a ‘binding national precedent’ requiring climate damage be weighed when fossil fuel projects are considered.
- Australia’s highest court has ruled against the expansion of a major coal mine, finding that planning authorities had failed to ensure that emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases would be “minimised to the greatest extent practicable”.
- Environmental campaigners called Wednesday’s court decision the first climate case to reach the country’s highest court.
Sources: Al Jazeera