In Finland, for the first time, a lawsuit was filed against the government for violating obligations to protect the environment
Finnish environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against the government for the first time in the country's history for allegedly failing to fulfill its own obligations to combat climate change. In the summer, Finland passed a climate change law that calls for the country to achieve so-called carbon neutrality by 2035. The suing organizations - among which the Finnish Association for the Conservation of Nature (FANC) and Greenpeace -...