Communities turned lived experience into evidence, securing a ban on Terbufos, demanding clean air, and stepping into health governance spaces.
Health is not negotiable. Support community-led action for clean air, safe food, and justice.

#CleanAir #CancelCoal #EnironmentalJustice #HealthJustice

Interested in youth-led climate litigation & just transition? Then Cornerstone Climate's session tomorrow is for you! Hear from the lawyers involved in #CancelCoal, South Africa's first youth-led climate case.

📆 17 July
🕣 12-1:15pm (UK); 1-2:15pm (SA)

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The potential of human rights tools for resisting fossil fuel production: Lessons from the #CancelCoal case Melanie Jean Murcott, Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, reflects on a landmark case in South Africa on future coal extraction.

As fossil fuel expansion accelerates around the world, #CancelCoal reminds us: human rights and the rule of law are frontline tools in climate resistance ✊

Read the full piece here: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...

The potential of human rights tools for resisting fossil fuel production: Lessons from the #CancelCoal case Melanie Jean Murcott, Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, reflects on a landmark case in South Africa on future coal extraction.

What can a courtroom do when a government vows to “aggressively pursue” new coal?

In South Africa, the #CancelCoal campaign answered with a powerful win for climate and human rights.

🧵 on this new contribution to our project from Melanie Jean Murcott of UCT Law
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#CancelCoal: South African Youth Successfully Lead Climate Case Against Proposed Coal-Fired Power Station | OHRH Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski via Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/burning-coals-LDi9F6oGojQ

#CancelCoal: South African Youth Successfully Lead Climate Case Against Proposed Coal-Fired Power Station

@Priyanka101 analyses the decision's importance both for being the first youth-led climate case in SA as well as for the future of SA’s energy mix.

Climate Litigation Brief #5/2024: The High Court of South Africa, African Climate Alliance and Others v The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others - Judgment of 4 December 2024 - Lexxion In this case, the Court: 1. Clarified that the decision setting the policy for future […]

My review of the South African #cancelcoal judgment of 4 December 2024, a joint publication by Climate Change Legal Initiative & Carbon & Climate Law Review.

The full article is available at this link: www.lexxion.eu/en/cclr-blog...

The amicus curiae brief highlights the importance of children’s environmental rights and the duty of the State to uphold these rights, and forms part of the ACRiSL project's climate justice litigation work.

#CancelCoal

This important #childrights #futuregenerations #youthclimatejustice rights case benefited enormously from an amicus brief submitted by the @upchildlaw.bsky.social. This brief formed part of the #climatejustice litigation work of the Advancing #childrights #strategiclitigation Project.
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‘Cancel Coal’ case victory: Mantashe’s plans ruled unconstitutional In a landmark ruling that saw young environmental activists triumph, the high court has overturned the government’s plans to add 1,500MW of new coal-fired power to the national grid, saying they are ‘...

South Africa's High Court strikes down government plans to build 1500MW of coal power in a historical case brought by young climate activists: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...
Hats off, #CancelCoal campaigners.

‘Cancel Coal’ case victory: Mantashe’s plans ruled unconstitutional In a landmark ruling that saw young environmental activists triumph, the high court has overturned the government’s plans to add 1,500MW of new coal-fired power to the national grid, saying they are ‘...

🇿🇦 court blocks government plan to build new #coal power plants - huge victory in SA’s first youth-led #climate litigation. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024... #cancelcoal

CCL Welcomes Landmark High Court Decision on Children and Youth’s Demand to Cancel New Coal-fired Power Generation in South Africa - Centre For Child Law On 4 December, the Pretoria High Court handed down its judgment in the landmark African Climate Alliance & Others v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy & Others, the “#CancelCoal” case. The Centr...

[Media Statement | 9 December 2024]
#CancelCoal

CCL Welcomes Landmark High Court Decision on Children and Youth’s Demand to Cancel New Coal-fired Power Generation in SA.

Read the Full Media Statement Here 🔗
centreforchildlaw.co.za/2024/12/ccl-...

#ClimateJustice #ChildrensRights

Win voor kinderen en toekomstige generaties én voor het klimaat:

Hooggerechtshof van Zuid-Afrika oordeelt tegen de aanleg van een 1500 MW kolencentrale omdat het de grondrechten van kinderen schendt.

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PRESS RELEASE: COURT RULES NO NEW COAL FIRED POWER – Centre for Environmental Rights IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Court Victory – No new coal fired power The North Gauteng High Court, on 4 December, handed down judgment in the landmark

How is this not making more waves in my socials??
#CancelCoal case successful in #SouthAfrican high court
#NoMoreFossilFuels 🥹

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‘Cancel Coal’ case victory: Mantashe’s plans ruled unconstitutional In a landmark ruling that saw young environmental activists triumph, the high court has overturned the government’s plans to add 1,500MW of new coal-fired power to the national grid, saying they are ‘...

South African govt plan to add new coal-fired power to the national grid, ruled ‘unlawful and invalid’. This is an incredible victory led by our youth! #CancelCoal

‘Cancel Coal’ case victory: Mantashe’s plans ruled unconstitutional In a landmark ruling that saw young environmental activists triumph, the high court has overturned the government’s plans to add 1,500MW of new coal-fired power to the national grid, saying they are ‘...

#CancelCoal case victory as high court rules Mantashe’s plans for new coal are unconstitutional

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...