Galway’s Global Legal Action Network is working on the case and say Ireland 'made statements that trivialise the impacts these young Portuguese people are facing'
An Irish lawyer helping six Portuguese youths take 32 countries to court over the climate crisis says the Irish Government’s response to the case is “bordering on climate denial”.
On Wednesday they will go head-to-head with 87 lawyers hired by countries across Europe as they fight for a liveable future in a David v Goliath case before the European Court of Human Rights.Mr Ó Cuinn told us: “In the early days of establishing our organisation [GLAN], we were looking for a case that could be taken before an international court that could produce a decision that would supercharge domestic courts to play a meaningful role in the climate fight.
“In the submissions that they’ve made, they’ve made statements that trivialise the impacts that these young Portuguese people are facing. He added: “We see a lot of problematic companies that shelter here from accountability... aggressive tax, profit shifting from developing countries to Ireland - robbing their public purse and affecting child mortality rates.“Ireland’s policies are contributing harms that our applicants are experiencing... and there’s not enough people addressing that transnational complicity.
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