Rise up, rise up

• Autores: Sophie Marjanac
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3136, 2017, págs. 22-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Marjanac examines a new climate lawsuit that will increase the heat on fossil fuel giants. The coastal Californian counties of Marin and San Mateo, together with the City of Imperial Beach, allege that by extracting, marketing and distributing oil, coal and gas, the companies engaged in activity that caused rising sea levels and will continue to do so. This is part of an international trend in climate change litigation: more and more lawsuits want to hold governments accountable for the mounting losses and damage attributable to anthropogenic climate change. In this case, evidence is cited that the companies being sued were responsible for the extraction and sale of fuels that released 20% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions from 1965 to 2015, and that they had prior knowledge of the climate risks that created.