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Washington Appellate Court Affirmed Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against State

Action by young people under 18 years of age claiming that the State of Washington and state agencies and officials violated plaintiffs' rights by creating and maintaining fossil fuel-based transportation and energy systems.

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Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

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Any compulsory, unrequited payment to the government levied on corporations or individuals. This can be for environmental reasons, such as introducing a Carbon tax to set a price that emitters must pay for the greenhouse gases they emit.

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People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

Actions or measures to adapt terrestrial systems to climate change.

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Oil is a combustible liquid fossil fuel composed mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring as crude oil and refined into petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and kerosene.

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The release of heat-trapping gases, primarily from human activities such as burning fossil fuels, agriculture and industry.

People who are less able to respond to the effects of climate change due to having limited financial or physical assets

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People whose health, both mental and physical, makes them more vulnerable to the effects of climate change

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Washington Appellate Court Affirmed Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against State

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