On June 24th 2015, the civil section of The Hague District Court ruled-in its judgment of 60 pages translated into English-that the Netherlands has breached the standard of due care by implementing a policy that would lead to a reduction of CO 2 emissions by 2020 of less than 25% compared with 1990 emissions. Any such policy of the Netherlands was seen as insufficient to avoid dangerous climate change and was therefore unlawful towards the Urgenda Foundation, a citizen's platform that instituted the proceedings, partly on behalf of 886 Dutch individuals. The Court ordered the State to cut CO 2 emissions by 25% by 2020 against a baseline of 1990 emissions. This case note discusses the reasoning of the court.
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Graaf et al. (2015) studied this question.