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  2. Climate change in the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch response to climate change is driven by a number of unique factors, including larger green recovery plans by the European Union in the face of the COVID-19 and a climate change litigation case, State of the Netherlands v. Urgenda Foundation, which created mandatory climate change mitigation through emissions reductions 25% below 1990 ...

  3. Urgenda Foundation v State of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its fourth and fifth assessment reports on climate change in 2007 and 2014, respectively. Among other findings, the reports emphasized the need for significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in the short-term, by 2030.

  4. Milieudefensie v Royal Dutch Shell - Wikipedia

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    The case was considered a landmark ruling in environmental law related to climate change: while previous lawsuits against governments have prevailed for enforcing a more effective climate policy, this was considered the first major lawsuit to hold a corporation to the tenets of the Paris Agreement. [8]

  5. Netherlands police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate ...

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    Police deployed water cannon to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

  6. List of environmental organizations - Wikipedia

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    Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Bangladesh) Netherlands. Ministry of Climate Policy and Green Growth; Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management; Staatsbosbeheer; New Zealand. Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment; Nigeria. Kano State Environmental Planning and Protection Agency; Saudi Arabia. Saudi ...

  7. Ministry of Climate Policy and Green Growth - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Climate Policy and Green Growth (Dutch: Ministerie van Klimaat en Groene Groei; KGG) is the Dutch ministry responsible for climate policy. The ministry was spun off from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy on 2 July 2024, when the right-wing Schoof cabinet was installed. "Economic Affairs" was simultaneously ...

  8. Command and control regulation - Wikipedia

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    Climate change is good example of a concern that is complex, full of uncertainties and difficult for many people to understand. [24] This may help explain the apparent incompatibility of climate change and a CAC approach. Mitigating climate change requires action of a much more proactive nature than traditional CAC models are able to deliver.

  9. List of international environmental agreements - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of international environmental agreements.. Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement.