litigation

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

Climate change

'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

clock 30 June 2022 • 2 min read
Why climate litigators may be coming for your company

Risk

Why climate litigators may be coming for your company

A new era of climate- and sustainability-related lawsuits against companies is on the docket

clock 24 June 2022 • 7 min read
'Fundamentally flawed': ClientEarth launches legal action against Shell's board over climate plan

Risk

'Fundamentally flawed': ClientEarth launches legal action against Shell's board over climate plan

Environmental law charity set to argue board of directors’ is putting company’s future prosperity at risk in first-of-a-kind legal case

clock 15 March 2022 • 5 min read
High Court throws out legal challenge to UK's oil and gas production strategy

Policy

High Court throws out legal challenge to UK's oil and gas production strategy

But environmentalists argue case forced government to accept oil and gas companies can make more money from subsidies than they pay in taxes

clock 19 January 2022 • 5 min read
Why ClientEarth is taking the government to court over its Net Zero Strategy - and why it matters

Net Zero Now

Why ClientEarth is taking the government to court over its Net Zero Strategy - and why it matters

BusinessGreen looks at the possible outcomes and potential implications of the latest legal challenges to the government's decarbonisation strategy

clock 13 January 2022 • 7 min read
'Pie-in-the-sky approach': Net Zero Strategy taken to court by environmental groups

Policy

'Pie-in-the-sky approach': Net Zero Strategy taken to court by environmental groups

Separate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets

clock 12 January 2022 • 5 min read

Risk

Shell and the new era of climate risk

As the Dutch court case made clear, society’s expectations of companies are rising even faster than global temperatures

clock 04 June 2021 • 6 min read

Automotive

Vauxhall faces mass action lawsuit over alleged emissions test 'cheating'

Up to 600,000 cars sold to UK drivers over a 10-year period may have been installed with defeat devices, according to law firm fronting mass claim

clock 19 January 2021 • 2 min read

Policy

Government faces fresh legal threat over Heathrow expansion plans

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins

clock 21 December 2020 • 4 min read

Politics

Study: Climate change increasingly raised as a human rights issue in court cases

Global review of climate litigation highlights increasing instances of activists and governments using courts to force climate action from businesses and governments

clock 03 July 2020 • 3 min read