Climate Battles Are Moving Into the Courtroom, and Lawyers Are Getting Creative

Reuters

Around the globe, lawyers are filing lawsuits in response to slow international negotiations, demanding urgent climate action and using creative new legal arguments to challenge companies and governments in court, Reuters reports. Two decades ago, only a handful of climate-related lawsuits had ever been filed worldwide. Today, that number is 1,600, with 1,200 of those lawsuits in the U.S. alone.

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