By Isabella Kaminski The Pacific island of Vanuatu has called for ecocide— wide-scale, long-term environmental damage—to be considered an international crime equivalent to genocide. At…
By Dana Drugmand An environmental law organization has launched a first-of-its-kind complaint against British Petroleum over the company’s latest advertising, claiming it is misleading to…
By Isabella Kaminski MADRID—As the latest series of international climate talks begin in Madrid, the discussions will have to broach issues of climate justice, experts…
By Dana Drugmand A group of young Canadians have filed a climate lawsuit against the province of Ontario, claiming that the government’s rollback of climate…
By Dana Drugmand An environmental organization suing the Irish government to challenge the country’s climate policy has appealed the dismissal of its case, and is…
By Isabella Kaminski One of the world’s biggest lenders has said it will stop financing most fossil fuel projects by the end of 2021 to…
By Dana Drugmand In arguing against a lawsuit pushing for the invalidation of its oil leases in the Arctic, the Norwegian government defended the continued…
By Dana Drugmand A German court has dismissed a climate lawsuit against the German government by three farming families and Greenpeace Germany. The Berlin Administrative…
By Dana Drugmand A group of young Canadians is suing the federal government over climate change, an action that is part of a burgeoning global…
By Isabella Kaminski Climate activists in the United Kingdom have doubled down on attempts to stop the expansion of London’s Heathrow airport with fresh arguments that…