<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="esc-lead-article-title-wrapper" style="margin: 0px 32px 1px 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="esc-lead-article-title" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a target="_blank" class="article usg-AFQjCNG8MhoOTGvY3tMaZxcTpYDIbS_UhA sig2-QTQcx1x6uCyaHG21GSRo1A did-2561152678659389173" href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132927-governments-sued-over-climate-change-with-banks-and-firms-next/" url="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132927-governments-sued-over-climate-change-with-banks-and-firms-next/" id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;">Governments sued over <b class="">climate change</b>, with banks and firms next</a></h2></div><div class="esc-lead-article-source-wrapper" style="margin: 2px 32px 2px 1px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table class="single-line-height al-attribution" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 13px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="al-attribution-cell source-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 0px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="al-attribution-source" style="font-size: 14px;">New Scientist</span></td><td class="al-attribution-cell timestamp-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="dash-separator" style="line-height: 13px;"> - </span><span class="al-attribution-timestamp">19 hours ago</span></span></td><td class="sharebar-cell al-attribution-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 6px;"><table id="52779508358554-sharebar" class="yesscript share-bar-table" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="line-height: 0; table-layout: fixed; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-left: 8px;"><tbody class=""><tr style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><td class="sharebox-cell share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: visible;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-gplus" title="Share on Google+" id=":6d"><div class="share-button-state"></div></div></td><td class="share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-twitter" title="Share on Twitter" id=":6e"><div class="share-button-state"><div class="icon-fc share-icon-twitter share-button" style="background-position: -16px -1px; width: 21px; height: 14px; float: left; background-image: url("https://ssl.gstatic.com/news-static/img/938363682-news-icons-fc_w.png"); opacity: 0.4;"></div></div></div></td><td class="share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-fb" title="Share on Facebook" id=":6f"><div class="share-button-state"><div class="share-button icon share-icon-facebook2" style="background-position: -258px -33px; width: 16px; height: 14px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-image: url("https://ssl.gstatic.com/news-static/img/3020985784-news-icons_w.png"); opacity: 0.4;"></div></div></div></td><td class="share-bar-cell" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width: 17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><div class="share-button-wrapper" buttontype="share" sharetype="s-email" title="Share via Email" id=":6g"><div class="share-button-state"><div class="share-button icon email-icon2" style="background-position: -258px -63px; width: 17px; height: 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-image: url("https://ssl.gstatic.com/news-static/img/3020985784-news-icons_w.png"); opacity: 0.4;"><a target="_blank" class="mailto-share-link" style="display: inline-block; width: 17px; height: 12px;"></a></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you can't beat them, sue them. Citizens are increasingly taking governments to court over climate change inaction, with financial lenders - and possibly big firms - next in the firing line.</div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em; padding-left: 1px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132927-governments-sued-over-climate-change-with-banks-and-firms-next/" class="">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132927-governments-sued-over-climate-change-with-banks-and-firms-next/</a></div><div class="">
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“On our present course, humankind will add more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere <div class="">in the next 25 years than our forebears did during the past 125 years.”<br class=""><br class="">“The most painful and expensive way to deal with global climate change will be to ignore it until </div><div class="">something happens that elicits powerful public demands for immediate and Draconian action.”</div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class=""> </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">Jonathan Lash.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">“As the earth heats up. “ </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class=""> </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">Journal</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">of Commerce</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">, August 16, 1996.</span>
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