Climate Litigation against companies

A Changing Climate of Litigation

CEQ’s Draft Guidance on NEPA Climate Analyses: Potential Impacts on Climate Litigation

In December 2014, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued for public comment a draft guidance document1 on how federal agencies should evaluate climate change in their analyses under the National Environmental Policy Act .2 The draft guidance does not directly regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) or climate change, but rather provides agencies with “direction on when and how t...

Social and environmental litigation against transnational firms in Africa

As elsewhere in the world, Africa has experienced a rise in litigation against transnational corporations for adverse environmental and social impact. Cape plc and RTZ have been sued in British courts for environmental damage and for breach of employment rights in Africa. Companies which sold products to South Africa’s former apartheid regime, such as Fujitsu and IBM, are now being sued in US c...

Conservative litigation against sexual and reproductive health policies in Argentina.

In Argentina, campaigns for the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights have sparked opposition through litigation in which the dynamics of legal action have come from self-proclaimed "pro-life" NGOs, particularly since 1998, when the conservative NGO Portal de Belén successfully achieved the banning of emergency contraception through the courts. The activities of these groups, acting as ...

Safety climate in Finnish- and Swedish-speaking companies.

The aim of this study was to compare assessments made by Finnish- and Swedish-speaking workers in Finland about the safety climate in their companies, because an earlier study showed that the accident frequency of Swedish-speaking workers was one third lower than that of Finnish-speaking workers. 148 Finnish-speaking and 138 Swedish-speaking workers from 14 small and medium-sized companies part...