How to win more global warming lawsuits
The fight against global warming is rapidly moving into the courtrooms. In the past years, in landmark cases in the Netherlands, Germany, and France, courts have agreed that state and corporate entities have a duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and demanded they adopt more aggressive policies. A Dutch court ordered the government to reduce emissions to 25% below 1990s levels, forcing it to go beyond its proposed goal of 17%. A decade ago, courts rejected climate-related lawsuits that suggested that legitimate links could never be made between the defendant's emissions and the plaintiff's injuries.