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Sometimes a authorized victory goes on to have an impact properly beyond its original borders. “Judges are in a perfect place to adjudicate most of these points as a outcome of they will independently assess whether or not the government or company is creating a harmful scenario,” says Sarah Mead, co-director of Urgenda’s Climate Litigation Network. Another clear instance of a shift in policy was in Australia, when New South Wales’ environmental watchdog launched a draft of its first climate plan after bushfire survivors succeeded in arguing that the agency had an obligation to do so.
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