urgenda
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Urgenda is a nonprofit foundation (stichting) in the Netherlands which aims to help enforce national, European and international environment treaties. In 2013, Urgenda filed a lawsuit against the state of the Netherlands – respectively also against the government – at the court of The Hague, to force them to make more effective policies that reduce the amount of emissions, with the aim to protect the people of the Netherlands against the effects of climate change and pollution.
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- Instance of
- organization
- Award
- honorary degree
- Participant in
- Urgenda v. Netherlands
- Field of work
- climate justice
- Country
- Netherlands
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam
- Movement
- climate action
- Official website
- www.urgenda.nl
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