Good Climate News! Advocates celebrated Monday after a Boulder, Colorado judge rejected attempts by ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy subsidiaries to dismiss a landmark lawsuit that seeks damages for the harms the fossil fuel companies have inflicted on the climate and local communities.
We're pleased to offer a teaching guide for Youth v Gov, the documentary about the Juliana v. United States lawsuit, in which 21 young people are similarly suing the US Federal government over climate change. These resources are great classroom tools for putting climate litigation news into context.
"In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today [04/09/2024] that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change."
Implications thereof queued for discussion. Should be quite interesting.
An MNC is the target of a civil claim for its role in #climateChange. It is #Holcim (which bought Lafarge in 2015, just after the bribes to the terrorist organisation "Islamic State").
The Cantonal Court of Zug has ruled "that the court costs and lawyers' fees will be borne by the State."