climate - risk countries "could use courts"

Vulnerable nation could hasten international actions on climate change by taking industrialized countries to court. say lawyers
Climate-vulnerable developing nations could use international law to break the current deadlock in the intergovernmental negotiations in the climate change by taking the industrialized nation to court, says a paper published today 04 October 2010.
"A large part of the relevant legal literature suggest that the main polluting nation can be held responsible under international law for the harmful effects of their greenhouse-gas emmisions". As a result affected countries may have substantive right to demand the cesation of a certain amount of emmisions. Thus, billions of extra tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will be released into the atmosphere, and many scientists warn that global temperatures could rise by 4 degrees celsius by the end of the century.
Progress in the international climate change negotiation is nowhere near enough to reduce greenhouse gas emission to a safe level. Something new is needed to push the negotiations forward. Perhaps an international court case could help bring new momentum to the negotiations."