Climate Change Litigation: What Risks Are Companies Facing in 2022?
ABOUT THE EVENT
The rise of climate litigation has added significant pressure on companies to clean up their emissions, and, from a business perspective, was one of the key outtakes from COP26. The UN Environmental Programme found that a rapid increase in legal action related to climate change around the world, with the number of cases in 2017 nearly doubling to 1550 cases filed in 38 countries by July 2020. Company directors are also increasingly concerned they could be found personally liable for failing on climate targets. Business leaders know that net-zero pledges may be difficult to keep, but what are the consequences? Our panel will discuss the horizon for climate risk litigation in 2022 and beyond.
ABOUT CLIMATE CAPITAL COUNCIL
The FT’s New Agenda is driving the company’s overall mission to produce informative, actionable content related to climate change, and the mission of the FT Climate Capital Hub extends to the aim of bringing organisations together to share experiences and ideas.
The FT Climate Capital Council is a new FT Forum where relevant FT readers, business leaders, academics, NGOs and policymakers can gather together through a series of regular events to discuss the responsibilities, challenges and aspirations businesses, governments, institutions and societies face in dealing with climate change. It also offers a space for businesses to share and collaborate over practical solutions.
After each event the Council will produce post event reports highlighting the key actionable take-outs for businesses to consider. As the Council develops it will look to developing new reports, resources and tools to help the community respond to the challenges of climate change.