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2009/6 'You are at risk' - Interview with Gerald Maples
2011/5 Generation game warms legal climate
2012/4 Still No Insurance Coverage for Climate Change Nuisance Litigation
2012/6 Climate Change Lawsuits Get Chilly Reception
2012/6 Oil Companies That Caused Climate Change Now Fear Its Financial Impacts
2012/6 Update on Climate Change Tort Litigation
2013/4 Bushfire class action sparks power giant's cash grab
2013/8 The cost of climate change: Will companies pay in court?
2013/10 Ninth Circuit again raises bar for standing in climate cases
2014/1 Fund managers who ignore climate risk breaching 'fiduciary duty'
2014/3 Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent?
2014/5 Adaptation and Liability
2014/5 Environmental groups fire legal warning shots over climate change
2014/5 NGOs Warn Energy, Cement Companies Of Liability Over Climate Advocacy
2014/6 Could Fossil Fuel Execs be Personally Liable for Climate Damages?
2014/9 Are Firms and Managers At Risk When Contributing to Climate Change?
2014/10 How International Lawsuits Could Punish Carbon Emitters Even If Governments Don't
2015/3 COAL: When legally liable, companies don't dispute global warming
2015/5 Business Needs to Pay Off Its Climate Debt
2015/6 Why pension fund trustees must consider climate risk
2015/11 NY AG Schneiderman vs. Peabody Energy
2015/11 The Oil Industry Has Been Put on Notice
2015/12 As Documents Show Wider Oil Industry Knowledge of CO2 Climate Impacts, a "Take it Back" Proposal
2015/12 Is Big Oil about to have its Big Tobacco moment?
2016/2 Fund managers who ignore climate risk 'could face legal action'
2016/3 Did Shell’s Failure To Disclose Climate Risks Break The Law?
2016/4 Pension funds quizzed on climate risk
2016/10 Carbon majors respond to climate and human rights inquiry
2016/10 The Next Wave Of Climate Litigation Has Arrived
2016/11 Company directors can be held legally liable for ignoring the risks from climate change
2017/3 Chevron warns it could face climate change lawsuits with future oil drilling potentially ‘economically infeasible’
2017/4 This Interactive Chart Explains World’s Top 10 Emitters, and How They’ve Changed
2017/5 Bullish forecasts create liability risk, ClientEarth warns fossil fuel giants
2017/5 What does it mean for Chevron when glaciers have the right to sue?
2017/7 25 Fossil Fuel Producers Responsible for Half Global Emissions in Past 3 Decades
2017/7 Like Exxon, Utilities Knew about Climate Change Risks Decades Ago
2017/7 Misleading Climate Advertising Causes EU Legal Liabilities, Ferrero Wins Nutella Lawsuit Over Ahold Delhaize – Chain Reaction Research
2017/8 Hurricane Harvey lawyers warn of climate lawsuits over damages
2017/8 Saanich to ask fossil fuel producers to pay up for climate change
2017/9 Big Oil must pay for climate change. Now we can calculate how much
2017/9 Hurricanes’ Contaminated Floodwaters Might Crest Next Wave of Climate Change Litigation
2017/9 Study Details Why Climate 'Criminals' Like Exxon Should Pay for Hurricane Destruction
2017/10 Can Fossil Fuel Companies Be Held Liable for Climate Change?
2017/11 Lluya v RWE, Higher Regional Court Hamm: Large emitters can be held legally responsible for climate change impacts
2017/11 New reports bring to light climate liability risks facing pensions advisers
2018/3 8 Answers to the Judge’s Climate Change Questions in Cities vs. Fossil Fuels Case
2018/4 Climate Lawsuits, Once Limited to the Coasts, Jump Inland
2018/4 Exxon Mobil Did Not Suppress Climate Science, Federal Judges Say - Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM)
2018/4 Journalist uncovers 1988 report showing Shell foresaw climate change three decades ago
2018/4 Oil industry pushes back on climate suits with dubious claims on bonds
2018/4 Shell foresaw climate dangers in 1988 and understood Big Oil’s big role
2018/4 Shell threatened with climate lawsuit in the Netherlands
2018/5 Company directors can be legally liable for failing to manage climate change risks
2018/6 Judge Dismisses Suit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change Costs
2018/6 Oil majors ask U.S. judge to toss New York City climate lawsuit By Reuters
2018/6 The Climate Litigation Threat Is Getting Credible
2018/7 Judge Throws Out New York Climate Lawsuit
2018/10 Billionaires Are the Leading Cause of Climate Change
2018/10 Lawyers cross-examine Big Four for climate reporting of audit clients
2018/11 Claws out: crab fishermen sue 30 oil firms over climate change
2018/11 Crab Fishers Sue Fossil Fuel Industry Over Climate Change Damage
2018/11 Landscape Architects May Be Liable for Climate Impacts – THE DIRT
2018/12 Climate change liability risk vastly underestimated by businesses — Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
2018/12 Whistler wants Albertan O&G company to pay for climate change costs
2019/1 After PGE&E's Climate-Driven Bankruptcy, Who's Next
2019/1 As PG&E Files for Bankruptcy, Who Is Liable for California's Wildfires?
2019/2 To make sure its utilities survive climate change, California needs liability law reform
2019/3 US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
2019/4 Historic Climate Lawsuit Against Shell Filed in the Netherlands
2019/4 Legal Liability Could Catalyze Action on Climate Change
2019/5 Are design professionals liable for failing to anticipate the effects of climate change?
2019/5 California utility Pacific Gas & Electric faces an SEC investigation into public dlsclosure, accounting of wildfire losses that led to its bankruptcy.
2019/5 The Real Climate Change Culprits Have Never Been Punished
2019/6 CFTC to assess climate change risk and possible mitigation steps
2019/6 City of Vancouver votes to demand fossil fuel companies cover climate change costs
2019/6 Oil majors gear up for wave of climate change liability lawsuits
2019/6 Support for Making Fossil Fuel Companies Pay for Climate Damages
2019/9 Firms face physical, regulatory and legal risks from climate change
2019/10 Attribution Science Is Empowering Lawyers to Turn Climate Change into the Next Asbestos Liability
2019/10 Many Dutch schemes lack concrete climate policy, says pressure group
2020/1 The biggest emitters could be held to account by accountants
2020/1 Who to Blame for Australia's Bullshit Approach to Climate Change
2020/3 Regulatory Activity and Legal Liabilities Affecting Management of Financial Climate Risks
2020/6 BP greenwashing complaint sets precedent for action on misleading ad campaigns
2020/9 Class action to stop planned coal mine extension filed by climate action-focused Australian teenagers
2021/1 MEPs: Hold companies accountable for harm caused to people and planet
2021/2 Japanese company directors on the hook for climate, says law initiative
2021/7 A Dutch Court Fires A Warning Shot Across The Bow Of U.S. Enterprise
2021/7 All businesses face the growing threat of climate change litigation – Beale & Co
2021/8 Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility files landmark case against Santos in Federal Court
2021/10 Shell Must Reduce Emissions, Dutch Court Rules
2021/11 An Updated Look at Civil Liability and Litigation Risks Associated with Climate Change
2021/11 Climate campaigners to target banks after Shell court ruling
2021/12 Lawyer who defeated Shell predicts ‘avalanche’ of climate cases
2022/7 Climate lawsuits proliferate, confronting corporate polluters
2022/9 New Allegations In World-first Lawsuit Over Clean Energy And Zero Emissions Claims
2022/9 The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
2022/11 Climate pledges put companies in crosshairs of consumer litigation
2022/11 When Does Collaboration Become Collusion?
2023/3 The impact of climate litigation on corporate governance
2023/4 ‘Like a dam breaking’: experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advance
2023/5 Delta Air Lines faces lawsuit over $1bn carbon neutrality claim
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2008/12 'Ecoflation' Set to Rattle Supply Chains
2009/12 Civil Conspiracy Lawsuits Filed Against Climate Change Deniers
2010/2 A “Legally Binding” Climate Agreement: What Does it Mean? Why Does it Matter?
2011/12 Thailand a key part of global supply chain. Flooding impacted more than 14,500 companies globally
2012/6 Court Rules Business as Usual
2012/7 Climate change is wild card in water security
2012/7 Climate risks heat up as world switches on to air conditioning
2012/7 Industries Unite to Educate Companies on Emerging Climate Risks
2012/8 Building climate values through food security
2012/8 Greenland Melt Sets Record Weeks Before Summer Ends
2012/8 Manage climate risks with this framework – whether you’re a believer or not
2012/8 Saltwater wedge reaches Chalmette; Plaquemines buys N.O. water
2012/9 Insurers, reinsurers should do more to mitigate impact of weather, climate risks
2012/10 A Tale of Two Credibilities: Hurricane Sandy and Recent Extreme Weather Reports
2012/10 Lessons in Risk Perception from Rising Climate Change Concern
2012/10 New Ceres Report Rounds Up Key Data on Climate-Insurance Nexus
2012/10 The Math of the Military Industrial Fossil Fuel Complex
2012/10 What would it mean to treat climate change like a security threat?
2012/11 A new Manhattan Project
2012/11 Prediction tool could help regional disaster planning - researchers
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