They want the government to be ordered to cut carbon emissions and protect the environment in Torres Strait. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - Off the north-east tip of Australia, a group of islanders has launched a landmark case against the federal government, claiming that a failure to tackle climate change has caused rising seas and extreme weather events that are destroying their way of life.
Mr Paul Kabai, one of two elders who brought the case, has warned that most of the low-lying islands in the Torres Strait will be underwater by 2029. He told the court in Saibai this week that climate change had altered the seasons and the agricultural land, upending the island’s traditional farming and hunting practices.
In September 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled that Australia had failed to adequately protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change. Climate change lawsuits have been increasing around the world in recent years. A report released by British researchers in 2022 found that 1,200 climate-related cases were lodged globally between 2014 and 2022, compared with 802 from 1986 to 2014. These 2002 cases were filed in 43 countries – including the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa – and 15 international courts.
Aside from the hearings in Saibai, the federal court held hearings on two other islands, Boigu and Badu.
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