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Le devoir de diligence consiste à ne pas créer de dangers pour autrui si ces dangers peuvent être évités. Partout dans le monde, de grosses entreprises méprisent ce postulat en ce qui concerne le climat. Roger Cox, avocat néerlandais, a ouvert la voie des attaques en justice contre ces compagnies. – Documentaire de RTS.

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Victims of the fires raging across Los Angeles today demanded justice and accountability from the actors most responsible for the climate change that exacerbated suffering and losses: the Big Oil companies that created the climate conditions driving the fires.

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There's been a major wave of climate litigation over the past 12 months, mostly in civil courts. But groups around the world are figuring out how to make polluting the planet a criminal offence. They're targeting the fossil fuel industries to attempt what governments, so far, are failing to do: Hold Big Oil to account, and stop them dead in their tracks before the whole world goes up in smoke.

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The measure will seek to raise funds to pay for some of the damage caused by extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent because of the combustion of fossil fuels.

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Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul

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People whose rights are harmed by climate impacts deserve remedy and reparation – and legal clarity from the International Court of Justice would be a first step

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In a new lawsuit, the state’s attorney general claims oil companies deceived the public about fossil fuel products’ contributions to climate change.

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This is one question Nikki Reisch, Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law, and I discuss on today’s episode. Nikki joins me to explain the wave of climate litigation taking place around the world, making climate a human rights issue for the first time in history.

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The Court of Appeal has granted a landmark appeal in the claim of two Nigerian communities whose environment has been devastated by oil pollution, allegedly caused by Shell plc’s Nigerian subsidiary SPDC.

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Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned?

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The lawsuit, seeking ‘multiple billions of dollars,’ opens a new front in the legal battles with oil and gas companies over climate and environmental issues.

JUSTICE CLIM.

As host of the board of the new UN L&D fund, the Philippines can set an example with its pioneering climate accountability bill

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Multnomah County recorded its highest-ever temperatures during heat dome conditions in 2021 that killed 69 people.

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The legal industry has a key role to play in the future of this planet

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Reparations provide legal rights. So argues lawyer and humanitarian, Esther Afolaranmi. Esther is the founder of the Golden Love and Hands of Hope Foundation in Nigeria, working on women’s liberation, girls’ education and lobbying the UN to meet the climate pledges promised at COP meetings.

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Following the release of new internal documents, Sharon Eubanks told the Senate Budget Committee that there is evidence for a DOJ climate case against Big Oil.

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Der Bundesrat will auch in der Schweiz Kollektivklagen zulassen. Davon profitieren würden laut einer Umfrage vor allem Anwälte, NGO und Aktivisten. Das Nachsehen hätten die Unternehmen.

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"État de nécessité" suit le travail d’un groupe d’avocat-e-s qui s’est engagé bénévolement pour défendre la cause de jeunes militant-e-s du climat. L’urgence justifie-t-elle le recours à des actions illégales? Un voyage intime et puissant, fait d’espoir fugace puis de terribles désillusions.

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2021 wurde Shell als weltweit erster Konzern von einem Gericht dazu verpflichtet, seine CO₂-Emissionen zu reduzieren. Seither hat in Europa der klimapolitische Wind gedreht – und im Berufungsprozess spielt der Fossilgigant plötzlich die soziale Karte.

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A new paper traces legal action against the livestock industry and outlines strategies for new legal claims

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Meat giant JBS said it’ll reach net zero emissions by 2040. LOL.

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« Le dérèglement climatique a des effets très concrets pour moi: pertes de rendements, surcroît de travail et un stress quand il faut composer avec un calendrier cultural déboussolé », a déclaré Hugues Falys, agriculteur dans la province de Hainaut (ouest de la Belgique).

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A new wave of climate litigation is targeting state institutions that are still providing public finance for fossil fuels, despite pledges to turn off the funding tap

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Shell’s oil spills have ruined farms and fisheries and locals want compensation before it sells up

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The suit says BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell have hurt the city by discrediting science even as their products lead to “catastrophic consequences,” including strong storms, flooding, severe heat and shoreline erosion.

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Manche gehen auf die Strasse, andere lancieren Kunstprojekte oder treiben die Energiewende durch ihre Forschung voran: Die Formen, sich gegen das Fortschreiten des Klimawandels einzusetzen, sind vielfältig. Der Anwalt Roger Cox hat den Weg gewählt, den er am besten kennt: jenen vors Gericht.

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The verdict is the latest legal development against PacifiCorp, which was found liable for damages for not cutting power to its customers during the devastating wildfires.

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Company directors who fail to foresee the impacts their companies have on nature, and the commercial risks those effects pose, can be held personally liable and fined, according to lawyers.

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When Kevin Jordan bought his seaside home in Hemsby, Norfolk, he was told it would be safe for a century. In the decade since, 17 of his neighbours’ homes have had to be demolished, or have been swept away into the waters of the North Sea.

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A wave of anti-“greenwashing” litigation is seeking to hold major players in the aviation industry to account for sensational claims of being sustainable, low-carbon or contributing to net zero.

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Spannung vor der Anhörung: Sechs junge Portugies:innen werfen 32 europäischen Staaten vor, durch zögerlichen Klimaschutz ihre Menschenrechte zu verletzen.

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Image source, Claudia Duarte AgostinhoBBC World News"What I felt was fear," says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people.

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An 11-year-old girl from Portugal sat inside the grand chamber of the European court of human rights on Wednesday to face 86 lawyers from 32 nations in the world’s largest climate legal action.

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Die größte Ölraffinerie an der US-Westküste gehört Chevron und steht südlich von Los Angeles. (Bild: Pedro Szekely/​Flickr) Kalifornien gilt als "Sushine State" und Inbegriff des amerikanischen Traums. Doch der drittgrößte US-Bundesstaat ist auch ein Hotspot des Klimawandels.

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C’est une audience hors normes, susceptible de marquer l’histoire.

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The state of California sued several of the world’s biggest oil companies on Friday, claiming their actions have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage and that they deceived the public by downplaying the risks posed by fossil fuels.

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The state of California has filed a sweeping climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, as well as the domestic oil industry's biggest lobby, the American Petroleum Institute.

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BP, Shell und weitere Ölgiganten sollen sich vor Gericht verantworten, wenn es nach dem Willen von Kaliforniens Gouverneur Newsom geht. Der US-Bundesstaat gibt den Konzernen eine Mitschuld an der Erderwärmung und wirft ihnen vor, die Öffentlichkeit getäuscht zu haben.

The words were strikingly prescient: Because of climate change, lush and verdant Maui was facing wildfires of “increased frequency, intensity, and destructive force.

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Überschwemmungen, Starkregen und Hitzerekorde. Wer soll für die Schäden zahlen? Eine wachsende Zahl von Klägern fordert, dass sich Konzerne an den Kosten der Klimakatastrophe beteiligen - auch in Deutschland.

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The future of climate change will be litigated. Humans now have left undeniable fingerprints on extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and flooding experienced around the world.

In dieser Folge sprechen Marcus Schödel und Klimaökonomin Claudia Kemfert zunächst über die katastrophalen Bilder, die uns derzeit aus Griechenland und anderen Ländern erreichen. Es geht um die Wald- und Buschbrände, unter anderem auf der Insel Rhodos. Kemfert äußert sich bestürzt.

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Lawsuits challenging government and corporate inaction on the climate breakdown have become an important driver of change, according to a UN body.

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La lutte pour la sauvegarde du climat passe désormais par les tribunaux: c'est ce que montre un rapport du Programme des Nations unies pour l'environnement (PNUE) basé à Nairobi et du Sabin Center for Climate Change Law de l'Université de Columbia, qui répertorie les données.

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Missy Sims carefully picked her way through a field of ruined tombs in central Puerto Rico, in a cemetery where walls of water from Hurricane Maria had smashed open some coffins and sent others careering into a nearby stream.

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Vietnamese climate activist Hoang Hong, who was supposed to give a TED talk about the need for climate protest at the TED Countdown Summit in Detroit last week.

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Climate litigation in the US could be entering a “game changing” new phase, experts believe, with a spate of lawsuits around the country set to advance after a recent supreme court decision, and with legal teams preparing for a trailblazing trial in a youth-led court case beginning next week.

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Dharna Noor reports on the 16 young people taking on the state of Montana in a historic climate case. What could it mean if the plaintiffs are successful? The Held v Montana lawsuit is the United States’ first constitutional trial relating to the climate crisis.

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In zwei Klimaschutz-Gerichtsfällen spielt die Schweiz eine zentrale Rolle. Bringen solche Klagen den gewünschten Effekt? Klimaschützerinnen und -schützer weltweit versuchen über gerichtliche Klagen, für mehr Klimaschutz zu sorgen.

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A county government in Oregon is suing more than a dozen fossil fuel companies for the costs it incurred in a 2021 heat emergency that killed at least 69 of its residents, in a move that could help prepare the ground for similar legal action in Canada.

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Do citizens have a right to a healthy environment? In Montana they do. The state constitution reads, “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.

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Mica, aged 15, learned about climate change when he was just four, when his parents showed him the documentary Chasing Ice. Mica came home from the film crying, he recalled.

Edi et Asmania ont été choisis par leur village pour dénoncer les pollueurs de la planète. Leur île, en Indonésie, est en train de mourir, victime de la montée des eaux et du changement climatique.

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L’État du Montana, dans le nord-ouest des États-Unis, est accusé par une dizaine de jeunes d’enfreindre leur droit constitutionnel à un «environnement propre et sain».

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Countries like the United States and those in Europe could be on the hook for an eye-popping $170 trillion in climate reparations for their excessive carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds.

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Last November the spring weather in South America jumped from cold to searing. Usually at that time of year people would have been holding backyard barbecues, or asados, in the lingering evening light.

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Italian oil major Eni is facing the country’s first climate lawsuit, with environmental groups alleging the company used “greenwashing” to push for more fossil fuels despite knowing of the risks posed by burning its products since 1970.

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The decision, climate experts and advocates said, felt “like a dam breaking” after years of legal delays to the growing wave of climate lawsuits facing major oil companies.

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La source soupçonne que les pressions exercées de toutes parts et le «risque politique élevé» grandissant d'être associé à la Russie, qui mène historiquement la résistance aux droits liés à l'environnement, ont finalement convaincu les États-Unis de changer de cap.

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The UN Human Rights Council has encouraged governments to adopt policies and an effective legal framework to implement the right to a healthy environment, a resolution that sparked tensions between proponent countries and the US.

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On Wednesday, Vanuatu, population 300,000, rallied countries to ask the world’s highest court to weigh in on a high-stakes question: Can countries be sued under international law for failing to slow down climate change?

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A group of Pacific Island students who were instrumental in pushing a UN resolution that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failure to act on the climate crisis have greeted its adoption as historic.

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Der Bergbauer Saúl Lliuya aus der Kleinstadt Huaraz hat nicht damit gerechnet, dass er eines Tages weltbekannt werden, dass er die Hauptfigur in einem Musterprozess sein würde, der «Local Hero» im Klimakampf, wie viele ihn nennen.

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Oil companies have come under increasing legal scrutiny and face allegations of defrauding investors, racketeering, and a wave of other lawsuits. But a new paper argues there’s another way to hold big oil accountable for climate damage: trying companies for homicide.

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Bedrohtes Inselparadies: Vanuatu liegt im Südpazifik, gut 2000 Kilometer östlich von Australien. (Foto: Phillip Capper/​Flickr) Immer mehr Länder schließen sich dem pazifischen Inselstaat Vanuatu an.

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Holcim-Chef im Interview Herr Jenisch, fühlen Sie sich als Klimasünder? Es ist der weltweit grösste Hersteller von Baustoffen, vor allem von Zement und Beton: Holcim mit Hauptsitz in Zug macht im Jahr etwa 29 Milliarden Schweizer Franken Umsatz, die Geschäfte laufen.

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Les plaignants réclament à Holcim, basé à Zoug, "une indemnisation proportionnelle aux dégâts causés par les changements climatiques et une participation au financement des mesures de protection contre les inondations", ont indiqué mercredi dans un communiqué trois ONG qui soutiennent ces h

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Das Zuger Kantonsgericht muss sich mit einem brisanten Fall befassen. Am Dienstag haben drei Bewohner und eine Bewohnerin der kleinen indonesischen Insel Pari Klage gegen Holcim am Firmenhauptsitz in Zug eingereicht.

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Les trajectoires climatiques modélisées par les scientifiques d’ExxonMobil sont devenues de plus en plus précises avec le temps, ce que montrent les trois graphes ci-dessus. Publiquement, le pétrolier américain ExxonMobil a longtemps nié la réalité du changement climatique.

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"Alle diese Beweise zusammen belegen in meinen Augen sehr deutlich, dass der (anthropogene) Treibhauseffekt existiert und unser Klima verändert". Mit diesen Worten schloss James Hansen, Klimaforscher der Nasa, am 23. Juni 1988 seinen Vortrag vor dem US-amerikanischen Senat.

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The oil giant Exxon privately “predicted global warming correctly and skilfully” only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found.

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Over the past 12 months, courts from Indonesia to Australia have made groundbreaking rulings that blocked polluting power plants and denounced the human rights violations of the climate crisis.

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Suite à une plainte, une procédure est en cours auprès de la commission, a déclaré dimanche Marc Schwenninger, directeur de la Fondation pour la loyauté dans la communication commerciale, à Keystone-ATS. Il confirmait un article du Sonntagsblick.

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The same racketeering legislation used to bring down mob bosses, motorcycle gangs, football executives and international fraudsters is to be tested against oil and coal companies who are accused of conspiring to deceive the public over the climate crisis.

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One of the victims says “nobody listens to us” while the spotlight has shifted to his American lawyer, whom the oil giant has pursued in U.S. legal proceedings.

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Australien heizt der Welt ein. Das Land ist global der fünftgrößte Kohleproduzent und der zweitgrößte Exporteur. Der fossile Brennstoff wird von dort vor allem nach Asien verschifft, aber auch Deutschland ist ein Abnehmer.

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Vanuatu has published a draft UN resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on states’ legal obligation for climate action and the consequences of causing harm.

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Du vet väl att du kan skapa ett gratiskonto på DN? Som inloggad kan du ta del av flera smarta funktioner. Sweden's climate policy is illegal. This is the opinion of the organization Aurora, which on Friday submits its lawsuit against the Swedish state.

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Skip to content Justice Activists Are Suing Texas Over Its Plan to Expand Interstate 35, Saying the Project Is Bad for Environmental Justice and the Climate The Texas proposal would add two lanes near neighborhoods already historically burdened by pollution, activists say.

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When a Dutch sustainability organization and almost 900 Dutch residents sued their government over its climate targets and won, it made global headlines.

After decades of delays, excuses and outright resistance, a small but growing number of wealthy Western countries have committed to paying direct aid to developing nations to help them deal with the climate crisis, which burdens them disproportionately even though they had little to do with causing

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If international solidarity with climate victims falls short, litigation offers a vital but imperfect avenue for compensation Loss and damage has been at the heart of much media reporting about the upcoming Cop27 climate talks in Egypt in November.

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Bewohner der Karibikinsel Bonaire wollen die niederländische Regierung vor Gericht dazu zwingen, sie vor dem steigenden Meeresspiegel zu schützen. Wie die Umweltorganisation Greenpeace am Mittwoch mitteilte, soll die Klage noch in diesem Jahr vor einem Gericht in Den Haag eingereicht werden.

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L'île indonésienne de Pari est de plus en plus touchée par le réchauffement climatique, avertit l'EPER. Sur cette petite île située au nord-ouest de Jakarta, la montée du niveau de la mer entraîne une augmentation des inondations qui endommagent les maisons, rues et commerces.

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Vier Bewohner der indonesischen Insel Pari verklagen den Schweizer Zementkonzern Holcim wegen der Klimaerwärmung und verlangen, dass er seine Treibhausgasemissionen reduziert. Auf den ersten Blick scheint das sehr weit hergeholt.

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Auf der Insel Pari in Indonesien hat der steigende Meeresspiegel bereits Schäden an Häusern, Strassen und Geschäften verursacht. Das beeinträchtigt die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, die Menschenrechte sowie das Wohlergehen der Menschen vor Ort.

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Sur cette petite île située au nord-ouest de Djakarta, l'élévation du niveau de la mer entraîne une augmentation des inondations qui endommagent les maisons, rues et commerces, affectant les revenus de ses habitants qui vivent principalement de la pêche et du tourisme.

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California’s attorney general has announced a first-of-its kind investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their alleged role in causing and exacerbating a global crisis in plastic waste pollution. Atty. Gen.

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The math is as simple as the moral claim.

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Aviva Investors, an important UK asset manager, has put the directors of 1,500 companies on notice that it is willing to seek their removal if they fail to show enough urgency in tackling issues including climate change and human rights.

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Activists pushing for global reparations for colonialism and slavery are often accused of asking for the politically impossible. At the international scale, however, reparations are more plausible than one might think.

ANTI-CLIMAT

Exxon, Chevron, Shell – die weltgrößten Öl- und Gaskonzerne haben den Klimawandel über Jahrzehnte verharmlost und die Wissenschaft unterwandert. Hier spricht Harvard-Professorin Naomi Oreskes über die Tricks der Unternehmen. Jetzt weiterlesen. Mit dem passenden SPIEGEL-Abo.

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Die Umweltrechtsorganisation Client Earth hat Klage gegen den Vorstand von Shell bei einem britischen Gericht, dem High Court of Justice, eingereicht.

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The US and UK militaries owe at least $111bn in reparations to communities most harmed by their planet-heating pollution, a first-of-its-kind study calculates.