Dutch Caribbeans to sue Netherlands for climate crisis failure

Residents of the Dutch Caribbean island Bonaire are launching a legal case with Greenpeace Netherlands against the Dutch government to protect their island from climate change. [Courtesy of Roëlton Thodé/Greenpeace]

Danique Martis lives on Bonaire, a Caribbean island that attracts tens of thousands of divers every year to its teeming coral reefs.

Speaking to Al Jazeera after several days of extreme heat, she said, “I have two very cute goats and they were overheating. I’m overheating, and my boyfriend’s overheating. It’s a level of heat I haven’t experienced very often here.”