News Netherlands: Greenpeace challenges government over protection of Bonaire A group of Bonaire islanders, together with Greenpeace Nederland, filed a legal claim against the Netherlands in 2024. (Photo: Marten van Dijl/Greenpeace)
Marjan Minnesma: The Dutch climate activist celebrated by those she sued It’s not often that governments honour someone who sued them. But Marjan Minnesma, founder and director of Dutch NGO Urgenda, who not only fought the Dutch state in court but won, inspired the kind of adulation that you might only expect from a more obsequious ally. Minnesma’s death