What did the Hoge Raad decide in the Urgenda climate case?

Answered byDutch Case Law API (Rechtspraak): ECLI lookup, uitspraken

Price$0.005 per court decision returned (HTTP API)

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On 20 December 2019 the Hoge Raad upheld the order that the Dutch State must cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% from 1990 levels by the end of 2020, based on articles 2 and 8 ECHR. The row is the English translation of the ruling (ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007) from Rechtspraak Open Data, with summary, dates and a link; includeText adds the full text.

Tool input

{
  "ecli": "ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007"
}

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  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ecli": "ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007"}'

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  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOSCO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ecli": "ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007"}'

Rechtspraak Open Data; no copyright on court decisions (art. 11 Auteurswet). The published decision on rechtspraak.nl is the reference text; not legal advice.

Example output

Snapshot taken 2026-11-06, source links in each row. First 1 of 1 rows (snapshot runs stop at 5 rows); long values shortened.

[
  {
    "schema_version": "1",
    "ecli": "ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007",
    "title": "ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007 Hoge Raad , 20-12-2019 / 19/00135 (Engels)",
    "court": "Hoge Raad",
    "court_code": "HR",
    "court_id": "http://standaarden.overheid.nl/owms/terms/Hoge_Raad_der_Nederlanden",
    "document_type": "uitspraak",
    "decision_date": "2019-12-20",
    "publication_date": "2020-01-13",
    "modified": "2025-01-20T14:05:24",
    "case_numbers": [
      "19/00135 (Engels)"
    ],
    "seat": null,
    "legal_areas": [
      "Civiel recht"
    ],
    "procedures": [
      "Cassatie"
    ],
    "language": "nl",
    "summary": "Climate case Urgenda. Human rights. ECHR. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Judicial order to the Dutch State to take measures against c...",
    "relations": [],
    "references": [],
    "published_in": [
      "Rechtspraak.nl",
      "JBPr 2020/20 met annotatie van Wiersma, H.W."
    ],
    "replaces": [],
    "replaced_by": null,
    "has_text": true,
    "text_chars": 149313,
    "text": null,
    "text_truncated": null,
    "source_url": "https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007",
    "data_url": "https://data.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraken/content?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007",
    "warnings": [],
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T22:51:12+00:00",
    "duration_seconds": 0.11
  }
]

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