Law and Oil: Taking Climate Offenders to Court
Climate One
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The Growing Field of Attribution Science in Climate Litigation
A lot of action against the companies is also forward looking, looking at their climate targets as in the Shell case. Some claims also now are trying to obtain compensation from companies because of how much they have known about the detrimental impacts of the products that they sell or create. There's then another strand of litigation against companies that tries to tackle the misleading and false statements that have been made about their climate plans. I think this is particularly pernicious once we see a whole swathe of net zero targets being announced but none of their actions are meeting their promises.
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