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Opinion: Will our courts soon import Dutch emissions disease?

The Netherlands is having to reduce its overall emissions sharply to alleviate climate effects on the Caribbean island of Bonaire

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Bonaire is a small island off the coast of Venezuela that most of us couldn’t find on a map. Yet a recent Dutch courtroom drama about sea level rise and hurricanes facing Bonaire, a “special municipality” of the Netherlands, could serve as the “Bonaire blueprint” for Canadian courts. If so, that could have big impacts on Canada’s energy prices, inflation and employment.

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