Solicitor General’s brief backs communities’ position that climate liability litigation belongs in state court, a technical fight that has delayed many accountability lawsuits.

The legal action represents a world-first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank.

A dozen young people have brought a constitutional climate case against the Austrian government, part of a growing wave of youth-led climate litigation.

With the Canadian government still boosting fossil fuels, it’s time for young Canadians’ day in court, argue lawyers suing the government.

Shell admits in internal documents it has “no immediate plans to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio.”

The past year saw major developments in accountability cases against oil companies and national governments around the world, as well as setbacks for several high-profile fossil fuel projects.

Municipalities aim to hold industry liable for damages from catastrophic 2017 hurricanes.

Fossil fuel defendants in climate liability lawsuits keep losing in their bids to keep cases in federal courts.

The case adds to a growing number of major climate accountability cases against the oil industry, a scenario that Shell predicted in 1998.

Individuals are expected to be a growing target of legal action on climate change, with activists, investors, and regulators looking carefully at how companies and their boards disclose and respond to climate risks.

The decision of one Appeal Court judge left hope that future projects could be required to consider emissions produced when fossil fuels are burned, which dwarf those caused by the extraction process.

A new report suggests that lawsuits alleging false or misleading “climate-washing” claims are increasing and “pushing the cause forward.”

A judge said the claimants’ focus on specific years when the companies received more in tax breaks than they sent to the government was “nonsensical”.

The judicial review, brought against the government's Oil and Gas Authority and business secretary, comes a week after Shell pulled out of the Cambo North Sea project.

The Giudizio Universale lawsuit heads to court in December. It is one of many climate cases initiated by civil society in more than 40 countries around the world.

Campaigners have said they will appeal the decision and believe the government's plans are "more at risk of being cut back this autumn than ever".

The case was brought by the coastal town of Grand-Synthe in northern France, particularly vulnerable to warming temperatures as sea levels rise.

England’s strategic road network is already responsible for more than 10 percent of the UK’s domestic carbon emissions.

Most of the lawsuits analysed did not quantify the extent to which climate change was responsible for the impacts suffered by plaintiffs, known as "attribution science".

Last week, the government said it would keep issuing new oil and gas exploration licences, contradicting recommendations from a recent high-profile report by the International Energy Agency.

"This is a turning point in history," said an attorney who noted that the ruling "may also have major consequences for other big polluters."

How the court handles two separate cases could shape the future of climate lawsuits across the world.

The UK government has ignored campaigners' calls to refuse new licences for fossil fuel extraction in the North Sea.