The Colombian government has four months to present an action plan to reduce deforestation in the Amazon region, the main source of greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change in the country...This was the order that the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia issued...in response to the legal action filed by 25 children and youth, with the support of Dejusticia...[T]he plaintiffs claim that deforestation in the Amazon and the increase of the average temperature in the country threaten  their rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, and water.  The high court...stressed that the government has been ineffective on this front...In the lawsuit, the children and youth emphasize  that future generations will be the ones to suffer the worst climate change effects...The Supreme Court granted the plaintiffs’ petition and ordered the Presidency and the Ministries of Environment and Agriculture to create an “intergenerational pact for the life of the Colombian Amazon,” with the participation of the plaintiffs, affected communities, and  research and scientific organizations, in order to reduce deforestation to zero and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions...