"Climate change is having a dramatic, rapidly unfolding effect on all Canadians," said the ruling, seen by AFP. "It is also beyond doubt that the burden of addressing the consequences will disproportionately affect Canadian youth."
"It's the least we can do to have the right to a trial to discuss what is an existential threat," Albert Lalonde, one of the plaintiffs and an environmental activist, told AFP. "I see this going beyond the federal government. This should put every province blocking climate action on notice that there can be legal consequences for inaction," said Tom Green, a climate advisor to the David Suzuki Foundation.
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