On March 15, 2022, I led eight children into the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney, marking the end of an 18-month court battle.
A year earlier, Justice Mordecai Bromberg had ruled that the federal environment minister had duty of care to protect current and future young Australians aged under 18 from the impacts of climate change. He noted in his judgment that the trauma and health impacts facing children will “largely be inflicted by the inaction of this generation of........