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Court of Justice of the European Union

PRESS RELEASE No 51/21

Luxembourg, 25 March 2021

Judgment in Case C-565/19 P Armando Carvalho and Others v Parliament and Council

The Court of Justice confirms that the action brought by families from the European Union, Kenya and Fiji against the EU ‘climate package’ of 2018 is inadmissible

The General Court was fully entitled to find that the appellants are not individually concerned by that legislative package

In 2018, families from various Member States of the European Union (Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Romania), as well as from the rest of the world (Kenya and Fiji), active in the agricultural sector or the tourism sector, and a Swedish association representing young indigenous Samis brought an action before the General Court of the European Union seeking the adoption by the Union of measures that are more severe than those laid down by a legislative package from 2018 1 in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

They claimed, in particular, that the General Court should annul that legislative package inasmuch as it sets targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by 40% compared to 1990 levels and, instead of awarding them pecuniary damages for their alleged individual losses, order the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament to adopt measures requiring a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% to 60%. 

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