Clive Palmer-owned company withdraws appeal against ruling that coalmine would worsen climate crisis

The Queensland land court declared that emissions from a Clive Palmer-owned coalmine would limit the rights of future generations in November 2022. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

A Clive Palmer-owned mining company has withdrawn its appeal against a landmark ruling that its giant thermal coalmine project would worsen the climate crisis and infringe on the human rights of future generations.

Lawyers for Waratah Coal have told Queensland’s supreme court it was discontinuing its appeal against the state’s land court decision in a case brought by First Nations young women and environmentalists.