Boost action or we’ll see you in court

Governments around the world must scale up climate action "or face further legal action", an open letter from 20 organisations around the world warned yesterday, as battles over policies to cut emissions and protect the environment are increasingly fought in the courts. Research from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics this year has found that of the 2,000 or so climate legal cases filed since 1986, almost a quarter were started since the beginning of 2020. Some 80 of these cases have been filed against national or subnational governments since 2005, the research found, with a record number of 30 new cases submitted in 2021.