{"id":77820,"date":"2025-07-24T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77820"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:25:13","slug":"un-court-opens-the-floodgates-for-poorer-nations-to-sue-britain-over-contributions-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/un-court-opens-the-floodgates-for-poorer-nations-to-sue-britain-over-contributions-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"UN court opens the floodgates for poorer nations to sue Britain over contributions to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JaqMA.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The UK could be sued over its contribution to climate change after a court ruling that countries (such as Vanuatu, pictured in 2015 after Cycline Pam) are responsible for their emissions\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UK could be sued over its contribution to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/climate_change_global_warming\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">climate change<\/a> after a court ruling that countries are responsible for their emissions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-my\/news\/other\/un-court-opens-the-floodgates-for-poorer-nations-to-sue-britain-over-contributions-to-climate-change\/ar-AA1Jamy2?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The UK could be sued over its contribution to\u00a0climate change after a court ruling that countries are responsible for their emissions.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/united-nations-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77821,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77820\/revisions\/77821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}