Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
And better science could make them more precise
I N AUGUST 2018 ClientEarth, an environmental organisation based in London, paid €20 ($23) for ten shares in Enea, a power company based in Poland. The transaction bought the lawyers at Client Earth a tiny stake in Ostroleka C, a one-gigawatt coal-fired power station Enea was about to build 120km north of Warsaw. It also bought them the standing they needed to stop the company from building it.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Habeas carbon”
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