Brett Wilkins

"It is outrageous that the judge is allowing this trial to go forward despite the lack of any evidence of a crime," said one observer.

"The appalling spike in settler violence against Palestinians in recent days is part of a decadeslong state-backed campaign to dispossess, displace, and oppress Palestinians in the occupied West Bank," said one Amnesty official.

Failed by their governments and faced with an unlivable future, young people are fighting for their lives.

The Labour Party has vowed to scrap the legislation if it wins control of the government later this year.

"Carbon emission reduction keeps getting pushed back as if it is homework that can be done later," said one plaintiff's mother. "But that burden will be what our children have to bear eventually."

The lawsuit notes that the government is constitutionally obligated to protect Koreans from the climate emergency.

One plaintiffs' attorney said the ruling "makes our democracy better and ensures that North Carolina is not able to unjustly criminalize innocent individuals with felony convictions who are valued members of our society."

"The time to build more dirty and dangerous pipelines is over," said one environmental campaigner.

One critic said that "the bill doesn't touch the homegrown spyware U.S. companies churn out" and "also strikes at the First Amendment right to receive information."

Activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn Citigroup’s environmental racism.