Do you want to know how our Climate Case against ING is progressing? Here you can read the most important moments and find all of the legal documents.
On January 19th, 2024, Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth - Netherlands) announces that it will go to court if ING does not align its climate policies with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. ING's head quarters receives a letter containing Milieudefensie's demands. ING has eight weeks to respond. From then on, anyone in the Netherlands can join the Climate Case against ING as a co-plaintiff. In the first week, already 9,000 people signed up as co-plaintiff.
>> Notice of liability (unofficial English translation)
>> Notice of liability (official letter, in Dutch)
>> Notice of liability (French translation)
>> Notice of liability (Spanish translation)
On February 14th, 2024, ING sends a response to our notice of liability. In the letter, ING says it believes it is already doing very well on climate issues, and chooses to ignore Milieudefensie's demands. By this time, already 12,488 people have signed up as co-plaintiffs.
>> ING's response to Milieudefensie’s notice of liability (Dutch)
The appeal ruling in the Shell case offers a lot of support: the Court makes explicit that companies must reduce their emissions, and that protection from dangerous climate change is a human right. The Court also says that starting new oil and gas fields conflicts with the Paris Climate Agreement.
>> Summary of what the Court's ruling means for the Climate case against ING
20,000 people have signed up as co-plaintiffs.
ING receives a letter containing our adjusted demands. We offer ING a last chance for a meeting.
>> Notice of liability 2, including update of demands (official letter in Dutch)
>> Notice of liability 2, including up date of demands (unofficial English translation)
ING answers Milieudefensie's letter. On February 19, Milieudefensie and ING have another meeting to discuss the demands and the letters. ING makes it clear that it will set our demands aside.
We announce that Milieudefensie will deliver the summons to ING on March 28, 2025. This is a long document with all of our arguments, the evidence and our demands for ING. This document signals the official start of the Climate Case.
Milieudefensie delivers the summons to ING, together with hundreds of co-plaintiffs in the Climate Case. The summons, together with nearly 10,000 pages of evidence, contains all our arguments and our demands for ING and the court. This moment marks the official, legal start for Milieudefensie's climate case against ING.
>> Read the summons in Dutch here (the English translation of the summons will follow in April)
>> Read the short summary of 6 pages in English here
>> Read the long summary of 26 pages in English here
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