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Dubious carbon offsetting claims 'ripe' for legal action

Dubious carbon offsetting claims 'ripe' for legal action

European dairy company Arla Foods sells many different food brands, including Lurpak butter, Castello cheese and Skyr yoghurt, and its green and yellow logo evoking a pastoral ideal is recognisable on supermarket shelves around the world. But in February, it was banned from using the term “net zero climate footprint”

An ocean of opportunities? Climate litigation is doing so well it’s now being eyed by investors

An ocean of opportunities? Climate litigation is doing so well it’s now being eyed by investors

Investors are increasingly looking at climate lawsuits as a source of revenue. Why is that important, how does it work and are there any downsides? Imagine you’re trying to get compensation for water damage to your coastal home, caused by rising sea levels and flooding made much more likely

Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation

Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation

Over the past twelve months, courts from Indonesia to Australia have made ground-breaking rulings that blocked polluting power plants and denounced the human rights violations of the climate crisis. But this year could be even more important, with hearings and judgments across the world poised to throw light on the

Why the International Criminal Court should investigate environmental crimes

Why the International Criminal Court should investigate environmental crimes

On 10 August 2019, vast sections of rainforest in central Brazil were set alight as part of a coordinated action by ranchers, loggers and land-grabbers to clear illegally deforested land. The ‘Day of Fire’ sparked record blazes in the region, but it was just another example of deliberate destruction of

Can climate litigation support loss and damage negotiations?

Can climate litigation support loss and damage negotiations?

Loss and damage has been at the heart of much media reporting about the upcoming COP27 climate talks in Egypt in November. With flooding in Pakistan 'likely' made worse by global warming and droughts in the Northern Hemisphere exacerbated by high temperatures, the idea that climate change is already having

SLAPP attack: The clap-back against lawsuits that threaten climate activism. Plus news...

SLAPP attack: The clap-back against lawsuits that threaten climate activism. Plus news...

To call the Keystone XL pipeline controversial would be an understatement. Over the 13 years in which it was proposed, commissioned and eventually abandoned as a means of bringing oil from Canadian tar sands to the US, it became the epicentre of an enormous environmental, public health and civil rights

Munupi clan members assembled in a group for the historic court hearing

Beaches and mountains, song and dance: Climate lawsuits force courts to hear see and hear things differently

When representatives of Australia’s federal court arrived on the shore of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory, in late August they were welcomed with a performance by a group of men wearing traditional clothing and white and yellow face paint. The boat dance ceremony, led