New Annual Briefing on legal accountability: Turning up the heat: Corporate legal accountability for climate change
This year's Corporate Legal Accountability Annual Briefing explores the rising trend of climate litigation brought against companies.
Turning up the heat: Corporate legal accountability for climate change examines the opportunities and challenges for bringing such litigation, and provides an in-depth analysis of the ongoing 14 climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies around the world. It also analyses other non-judicial initiatives for corporate accountability, such as shareholder activism and the "Carbon Majors" Inquiry by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines. Finally, it highlights the context in which these efforts arise, one of aggressive reaction by the industry and restrictions on climate activism and other civic freedoms.