Thursday, 31 August 2017

Governments and companies to be hit with 'wave of legal action' over climate change

Governments and companies to be hit with 'wave of legal action' over climate change

A "wave of legal action" over climate change has already begun and cases will become more likely to succeed as the scientists get better at attributing extreme weather events to global warming, activists have warned. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, lawyers from ClientEarth in London and Earth & Water Law in Washington DC said events previously regarded as “acts of God” could increasingly land humans with a bill for damages.

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