Climate Change Litigation Significantly on the Rise, Report Finds
#Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateLitigation #LSEReport #ClimateAction #CorporateAccountability #ClimateLawsuits #LSE #GovernmentAccountability #EnvironmentalJustice #UNEP #ClimateCrisis
https://the-14.com/climate-change-litigation-significantly-on-the-rise-report-finds/

Taking Big Oil to court for ‘climate homicide’ isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. #ClimateHomicide #ClimateChange #ClimateLitigation #ClimateLawsuits #BigOil https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/05/01/news/taking-big-oil-court-climate-homicide-isnt-far-fetched

"The 2023 United States Congress was the decade’s least productive one, and the federal government’s lack of response to the climate crisis has inspired a slew of court cases seeking to hold polluters accountable and spur policy change.

Here are four #ClimateLawsuits in the West to keep an eye on in 2024."

https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-litigation-to-watch-in-2024

this is no longer in the news although so many people across North America are breathing smoke from #forestfires made much worse by #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #BigOilDid #BigOilBurnThis! #ClimateLawsuits
necessary to recoup losses from #FossilFuel #Industry.

BIG lawsuit against the fossils
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/business/california-oil-lawsuit-newsom.html
#ClimateChange #ClimateLawsuits

Euroopan ihmisoikeussopimus ilmastokanteiden perustana / The European Convention on Human Rights as a basis for climate lawsuits: https://www.ft.com/content/9da70dde-5904-4469-90bf-1248e906b721

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateLawsuits #ClimateLitigation #ClimateLaw #ilmastokriisi #ilmastokanteet #ilmastooikeudenkäynnit #ilmastooikeus

A huge WIN for youth-led #ClimateLawsuits 👏👏👏 . https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/

GREAT NEWS! we need more #Climatelawsuits against governments and against #FossilFuel #Corporations!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/

#ClimateLawsuits are important b/c of "discovery"

"#Discovery is a term that describes the fact-finding phase of civil litigation. During the discovery phase, lawyers can access primary documents, depose current and former employees and executives, and generally get a whole bunch of information they couldn’t previously access.

Oil companies have been fighting like hell to avoid this phase because it will undoubtedly produce ten more “#ExxonKnew” series, if not more."

https://www.drilled.media/why-climate-litigation-matters

"#ClimateLawsuits worldwide have more than doubled since 2015, totaling just over 1,400 cases.

Boosted by the United Nations General Assembly resolution declaring the right to a healthy environment a #HumanRight in July 2022, campaigners and lawyers are using these basic rights – such as a clean and healthy environment that are often enshrined in constitutions or in international law – to launch lawsuits."

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2023/0614/Could-this-generation-end-climate-change-Youth-take-fights-to-court

"Whether a constitutional right to a healthy, livable #climate is protected by state law is at the center of a lawsuit going to trial Monday in #Montana, where 16 young plaintiffs and their attorneys hope to set an important legal precedent."

"The case was brought in 2020 by attorneys for the environmental group #OurChildrensTrust, which has filed #ClimateLawsuits in every state on behalf of young plaintiffs since 2011."

https://apnews.com/article/youth-climate-trial-montana-18e301a701fcf4badc904984455406fc

Suing for climate change
Fighting for our futures' aim
Powerful tool in play

#climatechange #climatelawsuits #climateaction #haiku #poetry

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2023/the-challenges-and-promises-climate-lawsuits

Sounds good on paper…but in practice the system protects the corporations

#ClimateLawsuits