Dear John,
I am asking you to make a year-end donation to Our Children’s Trust.
This has been a milestone year for Our Children’s Trust and our groundbreaking work across the globe.
We are premised on the truth that our courts are vital to a vibrant democracy empowered to save our planet for our children’s sake.
Without a stable climate system judicially recognized and protected as a fundamental human right, every natural resource we rely upon to exercise our basic rights to home, health, family, and life itself is under political threat.
For over 50 years, governments, and the systems they have built, have knowingly fueled the climate crisis, even though there has been clear scientific support to transition away from fossil fuels and public opinion to support such action.
This year we won the first ever constitutional climate case to go to trial in the United States, Held v. State of Montana. The world watched as our youth plaintiffs testified in court about how climate crisis has harmed their health, their families, their livelihoods, their ancestral and family traditions, their air, their land, and their rivers. As projected, our case is moving forward to the Montana Supreme Court in 2024 where we plan to win.
We are in it together for the long haul, until we have universal recognition of children’s climate rights by courts around the world and children’s fundamental rights to life on this planet are protected.
Thank you,
Julia Olson
Founder, Executive Director, and Chief Legal Counsel
