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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/cb48a5b36bd65db0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-bonaire-climate-case/ The Bonaire Climate Case - State Mitigation Obligations after KlimaSeniorinnen de Jong, Elbert van Asselt, Harro eng 2026-02-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 bonaire climate litigation KlimaSeniorinnen Mitigation Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Once again, all eyes were on The Hague. After groundbreaking rulings in the Urgenda and Shell cases, the District Court in The Hague on 28 January delivered another important climate change decision in the case of Greenpeace Netherlands v. The Netherlands (Bonaire). The court, acknowledging the contested political context in which the ruling was made, sought to square the circle of state mitigation obligations by balancing potentially far-reaching considerations about the mitigation efforts required from states like the Netherlands with an innovative procedural and dialogue-oriented remedy.