'I am very afraid for my future,' said one plaintiff, 'with so little time to stop this situation, we have to do everything in our power to compel governments to protect us.'
in 2017. The other two are from the capital Lisbon, which in 2018 set a new all-time temperature record of 44deg Celsius . that there will be a 30-fold increase in heatwave deaths in Western Europe by the end of the century.Six Portuguese young people on Thursday filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against 33 European countries accusing them of violating their human rights by failing to take adequate action to combat catastrophic global heating.
;“These 6 Portuguese young people face a devastating future of spiraling heat extremes\n\nToday, with our support, they've filed an unprecedented climate case against 33 European states demanding deep & urgent cuts to their carbon emissions\n\nTo support, visit https://t.co/kdbhkfQqgE;”The six plaintiffs in the case are 21-year-old Claudia Agostinho, Catarina Mota , Martim Agostinho , Sofia Oliveira , Andre Oliveira , and Mariana Agostinho .
"I am very afraid for my future," Mota added. "I live with the feeling that every year my home becomes a more hostile place." "If I have children, what kind of world shall I bring them up in?" she asked. "These are real concerns that I have every day. After the 2017 fires we realized that we must change and urgently stop climate change."
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