Climate justice in the courtroom

A Peruvian farmer is suing a German fossil fuel company, the city
of Baltimore has filed a lawsuit against 26 oil and gas firms,
and a Polish coal mining company was taken to court by its own
shareholders. Activists, investors and everyday people are
increasingly pursuing climate litigation as a means to exert
pressure on companies and shift our societies onto a more
sustainable trajectory. But success is far from assured.


Our climate question this week is: Can companies be held
accountable for climate change?


Guests: Saúl Luciano Lliuya - Peruvian farmer Florence Goupil -
freelance journalist Rupert Stuart Smith - DPhil candidate at the
University of Oxford researching climate change litigation and
attributing climate change damages to individual emitters Sophie
Marjanac - climate accountability lead at Client Earth


Presented by Graihagh Jackson and Neal Razzell Produced by Zak
Brophy Researched by Dearbhail Starr and Olivia Noon Mixed by Tom
Brignell Edited by Emma Rippon