A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark ruling that ordered energy company Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels, while saying that "protection against dangerous climate change is a human right.”

Faced with mounting anger from residents whose homes were repeatedly rattled by the shallow tremors, the government had already wound down extraction from the field which held 2,800 billion cubic meters of gas.

A coalition of more than 20 environmental and climate groups want a ban on fossil fuels similar to bans on tobacco advertising.

Europe's famed summer holiday season is in full swing, but efforts to inoculate people against the coronavirus are not taking a break.