#climatelawsuits — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climatelawsuits, aggregated by home.social.
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"“#ClimateLitigation is now a permanent feature of the global governance landscape,” says Joana Setzer at the Grantham Research Institute. “The question is not whether it will impact climate action, but how much, in which direction and at what pace”.
More than 3,600 cases are happening across 62 countries, up from just 17 countries a decade ago, with 249 filed in 2025 alone and over three-quarters lodged since the 2015 Paris Agreement."
https://greencentralbanking.com/2026/07/10/climate-litigation-risk-banks-and-insurers-ecb/
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Universität Hamburg: First comprehensive database for Germany: Growing importance of climate lawsuits as a tool for climate protection. “University of Hamburg sociologists Lea Frerichs and Prof. Stefan Aykut, together with legal expert Mona Andres, have created Germany’s first-ever central online database for climate lawsuits, which is now freely available. Including 221 lawsuits dating back […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/10/first-comprehensive-database-for-germany-growing-importance-of-climate-lawsuits-as-a-tool-for-climate-protection-universitat-hamburg/ -
Lobbyists Push to Shield Oil Companies from Climate Change Lawsuits
📰 Original title: Contributor: Don't let lobbyists win a liability shield for Big Oil
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/lobbyists-push-to-shield-oil-companies-from-climate-change-lawsuits/?redirpost=4740ba63-2f3b-4070-83c3-9717455ff60d
#climatechange #bigoil #climatelawsuits #corporateaccountability
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Lobbyists Push to Shield Oil Companies from Climate Change Lawsuits
📰 Original title: Contributor: Don't let lobbyists win a liability shield for Big Oil
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/lobbyists-push-to-shield-oil-companies-from-climate-change-lawsuits/?redirpost=4740ba63-2f3b-4070-83c3-9717455ff60d
#climatechange #bigoil #climatelawsuits #corporateaccountability
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Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy
Michigan is taking on major oil and gas companies in court, joining ne…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #bigoil #BP #chevron #Climatelawsuits #electricvehicles #energytransition #evs #exxon #exxonmobil #fossilfuelindustry #lawsuit #Lawsuits #Michigan #OilandGas #oilandgasindustry #Science #Shell
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"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
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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. -
#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."
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"#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."
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"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
