Ok, so let me try to summarise today's verdict by the Federal Court of Justice, Germany's highest civil law court @BGH_Bund :
Globally active 🇩🇪 automakers cannot be held legally accountable for causing excessive CO2 emissions #Climate because:
* Germany's obligations under Paris do not imply liability by automakers for their contribution to prospective exceedance of targets
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https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2026/2026054.html
@W_Lucht @BGH_Bund With the Climate Protection Act, Germany’s climate protection targets were made legally binding for the first time in 2019. Both sectors, transport and building / construction missed all targets.
Then they did what Politicians do!
July 15th, 2024: The binding annual sectoral targets in Germany’s Climate Protection Act were abolished! Instead of fixed CO2 budgets for sectors such as transportation or buildings, a bloody multi-year, cross-sectoral overall approach now applies.
Wolfgang Lucht