In this panel, we’re asking: what does this rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets? And, with development of attribution science, how does the future look?
From Greta Thunberg to elderly Australian nuns, increasing numbers of people are taking legal action to demand governments and companies do more to tackle climate change. Now, with the development of attribution science – which allows individual weather events to be attributed to climate change – a new frontier of climate litigation is opening, and the front line features a Peruvian farmer suing a German energy company for flood damages.
In this panel, we’re asking: what does this rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets? And, with development of attribution science, how does the future look?
About the organiser:
Dr Alex Bradley is a Darwin David MacKay Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the British Antarctic Survey. His research focusses on how the Greenland and Antarctic ice shelves interact with the oceans around them and the societal consequences of this, particularly with regards to sea level rise. Dr Bradley has an MMath in Mathematics and PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford.
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