Articles about Facts and Data for the Climate Class Action:
Articles on Climate Disasters Economics
● Weather disasters cost $150bn in 2020, revealing impact of climate change – report | Bushfires | The Guardian
● Economics' failure over destruction of nature presents ‘extreme risks’ | Biodiversity | The Guardian
● Rich countries must update financial vows to tackle climate crisis, says UN | Green economy | The Guardian
● Climate crisis to triple flooding threat for low-income US homes by 2050 | Environment | The Guardian
● Nature loss to rock global economy by £8trn by 2050
● Are We On the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
● World’s largest asset manager says it will focus on climate change | PBS NewsHour
● Redirect harmful subsidies to benefit the planet, UN urges governments | Environment | The Guardian
● Investing 0.1% of global GDP could avoid breakdown of ecosystems, says UN report | Climate finance | The Guardian
● Pacific Plunder: this is who profits from the mass extraction of the region’s natural resources – interactive | World news | The Guardian
● Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research | Climate change | The Guardian
● G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy | G7 | The Guardian
● UN blasts world leaders for failing to seal £72bn-a-year deal on climate | Cop26: Glasgow climate change conference 2021 | The Guardian
● Up to 410 million people at risk from sea level rises – study | Sea level | The Guardian
● Climate Crisis: The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually - Rolling Stone
● Luxury homes in Australia are falling into the ocean due to coastal erosion - CNN
● One in four cities cannot afford climate crisis protection measures – study | Climate change | The Guardian
● Culture shock: how loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival | Conservation | The Guardian
● The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change | HuffPost
● Top insurers join Prince Charles to fight climate crisis | Insurance industry | The Guardian
● Biggest climate toll in year of ‘devastating’ disasters revealed | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Funding needed for climate disasters has risen ‘more than 800%’ in 20 years | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Cost of world’s 10 most expensive natural disasters rises to $170bn, aid group finds | Natural disasters | The Guardian
● £262bn investor says it will target bosses who fail on climate or human rights | Investing | The Guardian
● Extreme weather has cost Europe about €500bn over 40 years | Extreme weather | The Guardian
● Global climate change causing 315,000 deaths every year | Airclim
● Climate Change Linked to 5 Million Deaths a Year, New Study Shows - Bloomberg
● Climate Change Would Cause 83 Million Excess Deaths By 2100
● Climate crisis is ‘battering our economy’ and driving inflation, new book says | Inflation | The Guardian
● US indigenous communities to receive $46m to address global heating | Indigenous peoples | The Guardian
● 3.3 million US adults displaced by natural disasters in past year – survey | US news | The Guardian
Articles on Fossil Fuel Economics
● New report shows just 100 companies are source of over 70% of emissions - CDP
● Global oil demand 'could exceed pre-Covid levels without clean energy moves' | Oil | The Guardian
● Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal | Environment | The Guardian
● Feeding cows seaweed could cut their methane emissions by 82%, scientists say | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
● 'Kern runs on oil': as California confronts climate crisis, one county is ready to drill | California | The Guardian
● Global oil companies have committed to 'net zero' emissions. It's a sham | Climate change | The Guardian
● Cancel all planned coal projects globally to end ‘deadly addiction’, says UN chief | Coal | The Guardian
● CO2 emissions: nations' pledges 'far away' from Paris target, says UN | Environment | The Guardian
● Oil firms should disclose carbon output, says BlackRock | Financial sector | The Guardian
● ISS updates proxy voting policy against directors who fail to address climate crisis | Banking | The Guardian
● S&P warns Exxon, Chevron and other oil firms it may cut their credit ratings thanks to the push to zero-carbon | Markets Insider
● Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action | US news | The Guardian
● Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
● influencemap.org Big Oil’s Real Agenda on Climate Change
● Global food production emissions 'would put Paris agreement out of reach' | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
● BlackRock holds $85bn in coal despite pledge to sell fossil fuel shares | Financial sector | The Guardian
● Exxon Mobil to invest $3 billion in carbon capture and other projects to lower emissions. - The New York Times
● Exxon Carbon Emissions and Climate: Leaked Plans Reveal Rising CO2 Output - Bloomberg
● Tax chemicals industry to help curb pollution internationally, experts propose - ICIJ
● Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK, says report | Environment | The Guardian
● Big banks’ trillion-dollar finance for fossil fuels ‘shocking’, says report | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Why we’re all to blame for China and India’s ‘filthy’ CO2 emissions | Living
● Oil firms to pour extra 7m barrels per day into markets, data shows | Environment | The Guardian
● State-owned fossil fuel firms' plan to invest $1.9tn could destroy climate hopes | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Secretive national oil companies hold our climate in their hands | Environment | The Guardian
● US and China commit to cooperating on climate crisis | Climate change | The Guardian
● China ‘must shut 600 coal-fired plants’ to hit climate target | China | The Guardian
● Oil firm bosses’ pay ‘incentivises them to undermine climate action’ | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
● ‘A great deception’: oil giants taken to task over ‘greenwash’ ads | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
● Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts | Environmental activism | The Guardian
● ‘Relentless’ climate crisis intensified in 2020, says UN report | Climate change | The Guardian
● Carbon emissions to soar in 2021 by second highest rate in history | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
● Senator Bernie Sanders wants fossil fuel execs to testify to the budget committee - CBS News
● Extinction Rebellion to step up campaign against banking system | Extinction Rebellion | The Guardian
● US fossil-fuel companies took billions in tax breaks – and then laid off thousands | US news | The Guardian
● Global alliance for phasing out coal not fit for purpose, says NGO | Coal | The Guardian
● Shell unveils plans to become net-zero carbon company by 2050 | Business | The Guardian
● Study: global banks 'failing miserably' on climate crisis by funneling trillions into fossil fuels | Environment | The Guardian
● Saudi Arabia price war wipes billions from value of major oil firms | Business | The Guardian
● Revealed: big oil's profits since 1990 total nearly $2tn | Business | The Guardian
● Fossil fuel pollution behind 4m premature deaths a year – study | Environment | The Guardian
● The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles | Environment | The Guardian
● Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions | Environment | The Guardian
● World's top three asset managers oversee $300bn fossil fuel investments | Environment | The Guardian
● Former fossil fuels lobbyist to head interior department as Zinke exits | US news | The Guardian
● Big Oil v the planet is the fight of our lives. Democrats must choose a side | David Sirota | Opinion | The Guardian
● $180bn investment in plastic factories feeds global packaging binge | Environment | The Guardian
● How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation | Business | The Guardian
● EU revealed to be world's biggest live animal exporter | Live exports | The Guardian
● Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price | Climate change | The Guardian
● How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action | Oil | The Guardian
● ‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago | Environment | The Guardian
● HSBC has stakes in firms that plan more than 70 new coal plants | World news | The Guardian
● ExxonMobil and Chevron suffer shareholder rebellions over climate | ExxonMobil | The Guardian
● ‘We have to pay the price’: Oslo’s plan to turn oil wealth into climate leadership | Climate change | The Guardian
● Is Biden serious about climate? His 2,000 drilling and fracking permits suggest not | Wenonah Hauter | The Guardian
● By pushing for more oil production, the US is killing its climate pledges | Adam Tooze | The Guardian
● ‘Abolish these companies, get rid of them’: what would it take to break up big oil? | Environment | The Guardian
● Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says | Guardian sustainable business | The Guardian
● Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 | Royal Dutch Shell | The Guardian
● Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● ‘Abolish these companies, get rid of them’: what would it take to break up big oil? | Environment | The Guardian
● Opec member urges oil producers to focus more on renewable energy | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Without help for oil-producing countries, net zero by 2050 is a distant dream | Ali Allawi and Fatih Birol | The Guardian
● Europe’s top 25 banks failing on green pledges, campaigners warn | Corporate governance | The Guardian
● Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
● New York City just declared war on the oil industry | Bill McKibben | Opinion | The Guardian
● Five Asian countries account for 80% of new coal power investment | Coal | The Guardian
● No new oil, gas or coal development if world is to reach net zero by 2050, says world energy body | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● BP criticised over plan to spend billions more on fossil fuels than green energy | BP | The Guardian
● Will Joe Biden’s gamble on big oil pay off in leveling gas prices? | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
● Middle East states in line for $1.3tn windfall from extra oil revenues | Oil | The Guardian
● Shell to give staff 8% bonus after record profits | Shell | The Guardian
● ExxonMobil and Chevron shatter profit records; eurozone inflation hits record 8.9% – business live
● Shell posts almost £10bn quarterly profits as households struggle with bills | Shell | The Guardian
● Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Germany to reactivate coal power plants as Russia curbs gas flow | Germany | The Guardian
● Chinese premier calls for more coal production as electricity demand soars | China | The Guardian
● Shell boss faces investor rebellion over £13.5m pay package | Shell | The Guardian
● China’s coal production hit record levels in 2021 | Coal | The Guardian
● Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● EU lawmakers vote to prolong fossil fuel gas subsidies until 2027 | Gas | The Guardian
● Poland vows to keep coalmine open despite €500,000-a-day ECJ fine | Poland | The Guardian
● Outrage as Italy faces multimillion pound damages to UK oil firm | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
● Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill | US political lobbying | The Guardian
● Ecco la classifica degli inquinatori dal 1850 a oggi - la Repubblica
● Planned fossil fuel output ‘vastly exceeds’ climate limits, says UN | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● China to cut fossil fuel use to below 20% by 2060 | China | The Guardian
● Shell and BP paid zero tax on North Sea gas and oil for three years | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
● Global demand for coal could hit all-time high in 2022 | Business | The Guardian
● Europe's banks fund oil and gas expansion despite IEA warning -report | Euronews
● Europe’s biggest banks provide £24bn to oil and gas firms despite net zero pledges | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
● World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
● ‘This is a fossil fuel war’: Ukraine’s top climate scientist speaks out | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Oil and gas companies are looking at a bonanza from the Ukraine war | Environment | The Guardian
● The $145 billion cost of deadly 2021 climate disasters : NPR One
● ExxonMobil reports record near-$20bn profit, almost matching Apple | ExxonMobil | The Guardian
● ‘Gold rush’ for gas production threatens to lock in global heating | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● People in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value, study shows | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Fossil fuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says UN head in blistering attack | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● UK and US banks among biggest backers of Russian ‘carbon bombs’, data shows | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Two-thirds of US money for fossil fuel pours into Africa despite climate goals | Cop27 | The Guardian
● ‘Explosion’ in number of fossil fuel lobbyists at Cop27 climate summit | Cop27 | The Guardian
● Labour would create ‘anti-Opec’ alliance for renewable energy, says Miliband | Renewable energy | The Guardian
● Impose climate tax on fossil fuel giants, media groups urge | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Let’s face reality. Fossil fuel interests have destroyed the Cops – we need something new | Bill McGuire | The Guardian
● Global fossil fuel subsidies almost doubled in 2021, analysis finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over world’s second-largest rainforest | Environment | The Guardian
● UN head accuses fossil fuel firms of business models ‘inconsistent with human survival’ | Davos 2023 | The Guardian
● Shell to spend $450m on carbon offsetting as fears grow that credits may be worthless | Carbon offsetting | The Guardian
● UAE to launch Cop28 presidency with oil boss tipped for leading role | United Arab Emirates | The Guardian
● Fossil fuel producers must be forced to ‘take back’ carbon, say scientists | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The Guardian
● Fossil fuel firms sue governments across the world for £13bn as climate policies threaten profits | Climate News | Sky News
Articles on Fossil Fuel Disinformation
● Fossil fuel firms among biggest spenders on Google ads that look like search results | Google | The Guardian
● Oil executives face ‘turning point’ US congressional hearing on climate crisis | US Congress | The Guardian
● ‘Super polluters’: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
● Climate misinformation on Facebook ‘increasing substantially’, study says | Facebook | The Guardian
● The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing | Environment | The Guardian
● Big Oil CEOs just lied before Congress. It’s time they’re held accountable | Jamie Henn | The Guardian
● Oil industry board members to testify to Congress on climate disinformation | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
● Oil firms’ climate claims are greenwashing, study concludes | Oil | The Guardian
● The great greenwashing scam: PR firms face reckoning after spinning for big oil | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Revealed: BP’s ‘greenwashing’ social media ads as anger over fuel costs rose | BP | The Guardian
● Warned of ‘massive’ climate-led extinction, a US energy firm funded crisis denial ads | Environment | The Guardian
● Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s | ExxonMobil | The Guardian
● The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Exxon’s predictions about the climate crisis may have increased its legal peril | ExxonMobil | The Guardian
● Oil giant ExxonMobil accurately predicted global warming in 1970s
● Exxon accurately predicted climate change in the 70s: Which other fossil fuel giants knew the risks? | Euronews
Articles on Climate Litigations
● Portuguese children sue 33 countries over climate change at European court | Law | The Guardian
● European states ordered to respond to youth activists' climate lawsuit | Climate change | The Guardian
● Court convicts French state for failure to address climate crisis | Climate change | The Guardian
● Global heating to blame for threat of deadly flood in Peru, study says | Climate change | The Guardian
● Activists hail Massachusetts law as crucial step on environmental justice | US news | The Guardian
● Coke and Pepsi sued for creating a plastic pollution ‘nuisance’ | Environment | The Guardian
● Youth activists lose appeal in landmark lawsuit against US over climate crisis | Environment | The Guardian
● Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis – report | Environment | The Guardian
● Regulators missing pollution’s effect on marine life, study finds | Plastics | The Guardian
● The destruction of the Earth is a crime. It should be prosecuted | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
● Netherlands becomes first country required by its court to take action against climate change - The Globe and Mail
● ‘Black Wednesday’ for big oil as courtrooms and boardrooms turn on industry | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
● Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 | Royal Dutch Shell | The Guardian
● Belgium’s climate failures violate human rights, court rules | Belgium | The Guardian
● Italian climate activists sue government over inaction | Italy | The Guardian
● Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings | Climate change | The Guardian
● Venue of last resort: the climate lawsuits threatening the future of big oil | Environment | The Guardian
● Heathrow third runway ruled illegal over climate change | Environment | The Guardian
● New climate science could cause wave of litigation against businesses – study | Environment | The Guardian
● Climate activists take Norway to human rights court over Arctic oil plans | Norway | The Guardian
● New climate science could cause wave of litigation against businesses – study | Environment | The Guardian
● After a Summer of Disasters, Some Lawmakers See a Chance for Climate Action - The New York Times
● New York Attorney General Sues ExxonMobil Over Alleged Climate Change Fraud
● The climate crisis is a crime that should be prosecuted | Mark Hertsgaard | The Guardian
● Legal Action Against Sweden: Greta Thunberg And 600 Young Activists Take The State To Court. - Asiana Times
● First climate lawsuit against Russian government launched over emissions | Russia | The Guardian
● US fossil fuel firm sues insurer for refusing to cover climate lawsuit | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Fossil fuel industry faces surge in climate lawsuits | Environment | The Guardian
● From Vanuatu law school to the Hague: the fight to recognise climate harm in international law | Vanuatu | The Guardian
● Young people go to European court to stop treaty that aids fossil fuel investors | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Climate Court: Cases of Climate Justice | The New York Times Climate Hub
● German judges visit Peru glacial lake in unprecedented climate crisis lawsuit | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Exxon must go to trial over alleged climate crimes, court rules | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● How cities and states could finally hold fossil fuel companies accountable | Environment | The Guardian
● Fossil fuel companies paying top law firms millions to ‘dodge responsibility’ | Environment | The Guardian
● Animals Recognized as Legal Persons for the First Time in U.S. Court - Animal Legal Defense Fund
● Historic Breakthrough for Environmental Justice: The UNHRC Recognizes the Right to a Healthy Environment as a Human Right - Opinio Juris
● Secretive court system poses threat to Paris climate deal, says whistleblower | Energy | The Guardian
● Climate campaigners take South Africa to court over coal policy | South Africa | The Guardian
● Shell to go ahead with seismic tests in whale breeding grounds after court win | Royal Dutch Shell | The Guardian
● Oil firms accused of scare tactics after claiming climate lawsuits ‘a threat to US’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● Directors liable for climate change risks - The Zimbabwe Independent
● Legal eagles: how climate litigation is shaping ambitious cases for nature | Law | The Guardian
● Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation | Climate crisis | The Guardian
● I led the US lawsuit against big tobacco for its harmful lies. Big oil is next | Sharon Y Eubanks | The Guardian
● Vanuatu makes bold call for global treaty to phase out fossil fuels | Vanuatu | The Guardian