Around 70% of the cases concluded between 2016 and 2023 ended in the claimants’ favour, according to the report. Regulators around the world have also been trying to clamp down on the climate-washing. The annual report analyses a database of 2,666 climate litigation cases compiled by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia.
Companies accused of misrepresenting their progress on tackling climate change are increasingly finding themselves the target of litigants, as activist groups look to hold some of the world’s worst polluters to account.
As many as 47 new climate-washing cases were filed in 2023 against companies and governments around the globe, according to a new report from the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
