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Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial

Grist

It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the public about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. Today, around 30 lawsuits have been filed around the country as cities, states, and Indigenous tribes seek to make the industry pay for the costs of climate change.

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What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

Envirotec Magazine

And nearly all of us use fossil fuels, plastics, chemicals and products from intensive agriculture. Ocean-acidification is still, just, in the green, and so is aerosol pollution and dust. Three are based on what we take from the system: biodiversity loss fresh water land use. billion humans – nearly all of them poor.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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The IPCC report brings the future of the climate into clearer focus

Envirotec Magazine

Greater clarity about the trajectory of climate change – and the need for decisive action – appeared to be forthcoming from the latest summary from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on 9 August. Policy response.

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Legal Action Against High Emitters Failing to Use Latest Climate Science, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The study reviewed 73 climate litigation cases against polluters across 14 jurisdictions.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York. Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.”

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L'Oréal embraces environmental labelling under revamped sustainability strategy

Business Green

It also pledged to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of its finished products by half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, and confirmed it intends to achieve 'carbon neutrality' across its sites by 2025 through building energy efficiency upgrades and replacing fossil fuel energy systems with renewables.