Climate justice in the courtroom
A Peruvian farmer is suing a German fossil fuel company, the city of Baltimore has filed a lawsuit against 26 oil and gas firms, and a Polish coal mining company was taken to court by its own shareholders. Activists, investors and everyday people are increasingly pursuing climate litigation as a means to exert pressure on companies and shift our societies onto a more sustainable trajectory. But success is far from assured.
Our climate question this week is: Can companies be held accountable for climate change?
Guests:\nSa\xfal Luciano Lliuya - Peruvian farmer\nFlorence Goupil - freelance journalist\nRupert Stuart Smith - DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford researching climate change litigation and attributing climate change damages to individual emitters\nSophie Marjanac - climate accountability lead at Client Earth
Presented by Graihagh Jackson and Neal Razzell \nProduced by Zak Brophy \nResearched by Dearbhail Starr and Olivia Noon\nMixed by Tom Brignell\nEdited by Emma Rippon