Why companies could soon pay for climate change
Behind the Money
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Are You Taking These Countries at Their Words?
This is kind of a unique case in that it's the first where you've got an individual in one country suing a company in another on these grounds. There was a ruling against shell last year which was very significant, essentially a dutch court said to shell, you need to make steeper emissions cuts. And there was also a case in france, i believe it was last year as well, when a paris court said to the french government, similarly, you're not doing enough. So and, i mean, there are hundreds more cases, not all so high profile, and they're not all about holding people to their promiseIs it? You know, there are green washing
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