Futuremakers

S2 Ep8: Climate change: Who should we sue?

Nov 24, 2019

56:52

To date, there have been climate change legal cases in at least 28 countries. From Greta Thunberg leading a group of young people in filing a lawsuit against five countries at the UN to the Hague Court of Appeals upholding a historic ruling against the Dutch government, increasing numbers of people are taking legal action together to demand governments do more.

And with various oil and gas companies being sued by US cities for costs of climate-related damages, today on Futuremakers, we’re asking: what does this rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets?

Joining Peter Millican on the panel today:

Fredi Otto, Acting Director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford, and a lead author on extremes in weather in the ongoing assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC)
Liz Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law at Oxford and General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law
Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science, and a lead author on the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5 degrees

Find out more about Oxford’s climate research at http://po.st/TruePlanet