Climate Litigants Look Beyond Big Oil for Their Day in Court
- Airlines and fashion firms increasingly defendants in lawsuits
- Cases have doubled since 2015; growing outside the US, Europe
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Airlines, farming and other heavy polluting industries have started to join oil giants as the main targets of climate change lawsuits, as campaign groups try to get their day in court with some of the world’s biggest polluters.
More than half of the 38 climate lawsuits filed against businesses globally last year took aim at firms outside their familiar fossil-fuel hunting ground, including plastics, agriculture, transport and clothing companies, according to a report from the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.