Climate justice in the courtroom
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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
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