Countries threatened by rising sea levels are asking a tribunal to decide on responsibility for pollution of the marine environment
In a landmark hearing, small island nations disproportionately affected by the climate crisis will take on high-emitting countries in a court in Hamburg, Germany, on 11 September, in what is being seen as the first climate justice case aimed at protecting the ocean.Antigua and Barbuda
As one of the planet’s greatest carbon sinks, the ocean absorbs 25% of carbon dioxide emissions, captures 90% of the heat caused by those emissions and produces half the world’s oxygen. If the case, brought by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law , is successful, these obligations would include carbon-emission reduction and protection of marine environments already damaged by COFlooding in Funafuti, Tuvalu in 2019. Half of the capital will be flooded by 2050, estimates suggest.
“There are no obligations to keep temperature rise to within 1.5C, beyond which there is a high probability of catastrophic climate change,” said Payam Akhavan, lead counsel and chair of Cosis’s committee of legal experts.
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