Young Climate Activists’ UN Complaint Against France

Expand Youth activists from all continents bring a complaint to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on climate change. @Michael Rubenstein for Earthjustice A 16-year-old boy named David is one of a group of children lodging a UN complaint against France and four other countries for its lagging efforts to fight the global climate crisis. David is from the Marshall Islands, on the front line of the already visible damage from climate change. Exceptionally high tides—called king tides—and storms regularly cause floods and have caused havoc to the two businesses David’s family owns,…

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