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

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JUNE 28, 2021

The new study from the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and Environmental Change Institute, Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation, finds that many lawsuits have not used the latest advances in attribution science as evidence. The power of climate litigation is increasingly clear”, said lead author Rupert Stuart-Smith.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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

Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

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