Roger Partridge: Parliament to Correct Supreme Court on Climate Change

Changing climate law to prevent civil cases removes a key protection for NZ citizens

Ben McKay/AAP, Mark Baker/AP, The ConversationThe government’s plan to change the law to bar claims for harms from greenhouse gas emissions shuts down New Zealand’s most important climate tort case, meaning it will never be decided on its merits. The move overrides a unanimous Supreme Court decision that Smith v Fonterra, a case against some of New Zealand’s major corporate emitters, should go to trial. It also guts the future capacity of tort l…

Roger Partridge: Parliament to correct Supreme Court on climate change

This week, the Government moved to reassert Parliament’s authority over the courts. Two years ago, in Smith versus Fonterra, the Supreme Court revived a...

New Zealand Moves To Ban Liability Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies

The justice minister says litigation over blame for climate change is ‘creating uncertainty in business confidence.’

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The government intends to adjust the Climate Change Response Act, preventing the courts from finding certain types of liability for...

New Zealand Moves to Block Private Climate Lawsuits

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