{"id":25900,"date":"2018-12-17T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25900"},"modified":"2018-12-17T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:22:54","slug":"island-nation-threatens-to-sue-biggest-carbon-energy-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25900","title":{"rendered":"Island nation threatens to sue biggest carbon energy producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A tiny Pacific Island nation facing an existential threat due to climate change has put the world&#8217;s biggest carbon energy producers on notice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Keep it up, that nation&#8217;s top diplomat warned, and you might face a lawsuit from Vanuatu.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Vanuatu is now considering taking legal action both against these fossil fuel companies, but also potentially the governments that are facilitating them, subsidizing them, allowing them to operate this way,&#8221; Ralph Regenvanu, foreign minister of Vanuatu, told CNN at the COP24 climate talks in Poland last week.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A tiny Pacific Island nation facing an existential threat due to climate change has put the world&#8217;s biggest carbon energy producers on notice.Keep it up, that nation&#8217;s top diplomat warned, and you might face a lawsuit from Vanuatu.&#8221;Vanuatu is now considering taking legal action both against these fossil fuel companies, but also potentially the governments&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}