Urgenda

urgenda
Stichting Urgenda
Formation2007
FounderJan Rotmans, Marjan Minnesma
Founded atAmsterdam, Netherlands
TypeStichting (Foundation under netherlands law)
PurposeClimate change mitigation, environmental protection, sustainability
Websiteurgenda.nl

Urgenda is a nonprofit foundation (stichting) in the Netherlands which aims to help enforce national, European and international environment treaties. In 2013, Urgenda filed a lawsuit against the state of the Netherlands – respectively also against the government – at the court of The Hague, to force them to make more effective policies that reduce the amount of emissions, with the aim to protect the people of the Netherlands against the effects of climate change and pollution.