Luttes en partage © Benoît Guillaume

Climate: can recourse really change the game?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

  • Debate-
  • Meeting

With Camille Étienne (activist) and Jérémie Suissa (general delegate of Notre Affaire à Tous)
Moderation: Paloma Moritz
With the participation of Enguerrand Lascols, heritage curator, head of the Domestic Life department at the Mucem.

In December 2018, four NGOs took the French state to court for its inaction on climate change. Their objective? To have judges recognize the State’s obligation to act to limit global warming to 1.5°C, in order to protect French people from the risks induced by climate disruption.

This action is part of a wider international movement to use the judicial system to compel states to take appropriate action. But is it really effective? Should we go so far as to give legal personality to rivers, lakes and other natural areas, as is already the case in some twenty countries? Let’s take a look at what has really been achieved, and what’s currently being fought for.

With Camille Étienne (activist) and Jérémie Suissa (general delegate of Notre Affaire à Tous)
Moderation: Paloma Moritz
With the participation of Enguerrand Lascols, heritage curator, head of the Domestic Life department at the Mucem.

In December 2018, four NGOs took the French state to court for its inaction on climate change. Their objective? To have judges recognize the State’s obligation to act to limit global warming to 1.5°C, in order to protect French people from the risks induced by climate disruption.

This action is part of a wider international movement to use the judicial system to compel states to take appropriate action. But is it really effective? Should we go so far as to give legal personality to rivers, lakes and other natural areas, as is already the case in some twenty countries? Let’s take a look at what has really been achieved, and what’s currently being fought for.