The project that will save about 110,000 people is unprecedented: nothing like this has ever been built in an urban environment as complex as the Big Apple.
A huge but key job for a city with more than 830 kilometers of coastline that still remembers the ravages of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which flooded Lower Manhattan and flooded subway lines, homes and businesses.
The project also includes a renovation of the East River Park to cover it with enough soil to withstand flooding, which will raise the forested area up to three meters.
The project should be ready by 2025 and is just one part of a more ambitious $ 20 billion plan. to protect Lower Manhattan from rising water levels. Alerts are sounding: The East River is estimated to rise up to 60 centimeters by 2050.
In any case, the idea met with resistance from New Yorkers who oppose it because of its costs and the environmental damage it will generate, since the work includes the felling of 1,000 trees.
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Failure that can make history
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Environmentalists celebrated the Dutch court ruling.
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Reuters
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A Dutch court heard a lawsuit from a group of environmental organizations, and more than 17,000 citizens who had joined as a civil party, and ordered the oil giant Shell to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by the end of 2030.
The case, dubbed “the people v. Shell”, could become a precedent in courts around the world, where similar lawsuits are being processed.
“It is a historic day”said Donald Pols, director of the Dutch branch of the NGO Friends of the Earth.
The company announced that it is already taking measures to support the energy transition and announced that it will “appeal the disappointing court decision.”
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