'Not just fossil fuels': Nearly 500 climate litigation cases filed in 2021

clock • 2 min read
'Not just fossil fuels': Nearly 500 climate litigation cases filed in 2021

Researchers from the London School of Economics highlights the growing risk of environmental legal action faced by food and agriculture, transport, plastics, and finance firms

Legal action poses a growing risk for the fossil fuel industry and other companies in high-emitting industries, according to a major new report published today which shows that almost 500 climate-related...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

Author spotlight

Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski

View profile
More from Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski

UK business leaders: Corporate climate action top priority despite economic woes

Net Zero Festival: Firms urged to put data at the heart of decarbonisation strategies

More on Climate change

Global Briefing: Spain earmarks €9bn for housing and transport in 'Social Climate Plan'
Climate change

Global Briefing: Spain earmarks €9bn for housing and transport in 'Social Climate Plan'

May temperatures in Saudi Arabia reaching extremes previously confined to summer , report finds countries can ‘dramatically impact’ plastic pollution without global consensus, and Spain earmarks €9bn for energy transition

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 29 May 2026 • 8 min read
WMO: World set to face yet more record hot years this decade
Climate change

WMO: World set to face yet more record hot years this decade

UN's World Meteorological Organisation warns it is 'very likely' that global temperatures will temporarily exceed 1.5C for at least one year by 2030

Amber Rolt
clock 28 May 2026 • 4 min read
'Profound implications': Study finds Arctic Ocean ecosystem may have already passed 'major tipping point' in 2009
Climate change

'Profound implications': Study finds Arctic Ocean ecosystem may have already passed 'major tipping point' in 2009

Irreversible shift in Arctic Ocean chemical make-up driven by climate change has disrupted the region’s food chain for more than a decade, study suggests

Stuart Stone
Stuart Stone
clock 28 May 2026 • 4 min read