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People over profits: Learning from the rise in climate change lawsuits

Rebecca Byrnes, LSE

16 September 2019 • 5 min read

Companies are increasingly in the firing line for climate litigation, argues Rebecca Byrnes at LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Major corporations and investment funds are increasingly in the firing line for strategic climate litigation, which poses a real financial risk. Companies need to be thinking about liability risk when...

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