Attorney General Charity Clark said she thinks the oil companies are “running out of tricks,” but still, the lawsuit could go on for years.
“For more than 50 years, fossil fuel companies have conducted sophisticated disinformation campaigns to obscure their own research showing that burning fossil fuels would drive climate change. This ...
From December 2 to 13, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held hearings on the “Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change” case. During the 12-day period, 96 states and 11 ...
a state judge has rejected New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold oil and gas companies financially accountable for climate change. New York City filed its case in 2021 under then-Mayor Bill de ...
Climate law specialist Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala explains. This climate change case started in 2021 when a group of law students lobbied the government of Vanuatu, a tiny South Pacific island nation ...
An island nation has brought a landmark climate change case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This represents a pivotal moment in international law and environmental governance.
It's a landmark case: brought by students in 2019 from the University of Vanuatu – the Pacific Island nation heavily impacted by climate change – led to a UN General Assembly resolution in ...
Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It’s a winter’s day late this century and London is engulfed in a December blizzard, its third of the season.
The Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled that the case was not about whether the young people were trying to impose an obligation on the government to fight climate change, as the lower court judge ...
P.E.I. lost about 7 winter days a year over last decade due to climate change: study P.E.I. ski park opens for the 2023 season, with 1 hill in operation But at the back of some skiers' minds as ...