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Analysts believe a rising tide of climate litigation cases against heavy emitting businesses is merely scratching the surface of what is to be expected.

Mainstream Mainstream, VOL LIX No 12, New Delhi, March 6, 2021 To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It’s the only way | Jojo Mehta and Julia Jackson Friday 5 March 2021 Outlawing ecocide would hold governments and corporations accountable for environmental negligence. We can’t wait 24 Feb 2021 The Paris agreement is failing. Yet there is new hope for preserving a livable planet: the growing global campaign to criminalize ecocide can address the root causes of the climate crisis and safeguard our planet – the common home of all humanity and, indeed, all life on ...

Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in an Amazon rainforest reserve in Pará State, Brazil. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images The Paris agreement is failing. Yet there is new hope for preserving a livable planet: the growing global campaign to criminalize ecocide can address the root causes of the climate crisis and safeguard our planet – the common home of all humanity and, indeed, all life on Earth. Nearly five years after the negotiation of the landmark Paris agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions and associated global ...

Courts summoned to rule on climate change 598 PARIS, Dec 29, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Frustrated with inaction on catastrophic global warming, citizens are hauling governments and big polluters before the courts calling for “climate justice”. Increasingly the cases invoke human rights, particularly the right to life. – Boom in lawsuits – The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University has counted more than 1,700 legal cases filed across the globe, with over 1,300 in the United States. “We’ve seen over the last five years a dramatic increase in the number of cases filed in...

Bid to make 'ecocide' a crime gains new momentum 3 published : 16 Dec 2020 at 11:45 Should deforestation be judged as an international crime? PARIS: Climate change, oil spills, deforestation. The injuries caused to the natural world by states and companies threaten whole ecosystems and imperil the environment that sustains life itself. But are they crimes? Many think that they are and the idea of criminalising "ecocide" is beginning to gain ground. "People are starting to realise that if we don't get serious about climate change and the th...