Pay now, or pay more later. That’s the message sent by the International Court of Justice to fossil fuel-producing countries in an “advisory opinion” on climate change released last week. The opinion responds to a request for legal advice from all 193 United Nations member states.
“Failure of the state to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions including through fossil fuel production, fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licenses, or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that state,” the court wrote in its unanimous decision.
A normal PM would tell that Kangaroo Kourt to shove it. Carney welcomes it as yet another avenue to shut down the oil industry.
