Climate Adaptation
Volkswagen Faces Court Case to Eliminate Polluting Cars by 2030
- German court hears first case in wave of climate litigation
- VW must slash combustion-engine car production, says farmer
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First it was oil giant Shell Plc, now it’s the turn of Europe’s biggest carmaker.
In the wake of a landmark Dutch ruling a year ago which ordered Shell to cut its emissions by 45% by 2030, a German organic cattle-and-grain farmer is targeting Volkswagen AG to force it to reduce its output of polluting cars to zero by that same date.