{"id":66470,"date":"2024-08-29T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/south-korea-court-climate-law-violates-rights-future-generations"},"modified":"2024-08-29T22:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:14:28","slug":"south-koreas-climate-law-violates-rights-of-future-generations-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66470","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s climate law violates rights of future generations, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absence of legally binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions from 2031-49 deemed unconstitutional<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s constitutional court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yna.co.kr\/view\/AKR20240829130251004\">has ruled<\/a> that part of the country\u2019s climate law does not conform with protecting the constitutional rights of future generations, an outcome local activists are calling a \u201clandmark decision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The unanimous verdict concludes four years of legal battles and sets a significant precedent for future climate-related legal actions in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/south-korea-court-climate-law-violates-rights-future-generations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absence of legally binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions from 2031-49 deemed unconstitutionalSouth Korea\u2019s constitutional court has ruled that part of the country\u2019s climate law does not conform with protecting the constitutional rights of futur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,564,53,86,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-human-rights","category-law","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470\/revisions\/66479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}