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Critical Actions to Stop the Global Fossil Fuel Cartel's Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity
Last Updated 7.30.24.
This page is part of the Climate Justice Now program. The full Climate Justice Now program is described on this page.
Please note: It is essential to read this page before reading the following. It takes you through the list of the many climate change crimes against humanity that the global fossil fuel cartel has committed over the last 40 years. A link at the bottom of this crimes against humanity page will bring you back to this page when you are done reviewing it.)
Overview
The sections on this page contain:
1. How Decades of the Wrong Climate Change Target Has Equalled Wrong Remedial Actions and Continuous Failure to Lower Global Fossil Fuel Usage.
2. Here are the critical ACTION steps we can take to end the climate change emergency and enforce climate justice.
2. Evidence, documentation, and notes for this main cartel public trial page, which is a legal presentation and argument that provides evidence for the obscene crimes committed by the cartel over the last 40 years.
3. A link to a list of law firms that may be able to help the many victims of climate change. Simply because it directly and immediately removes all profit from wrongdoing, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, related companies, senior executives, and enablers may prove to become more effective in ending the climate change emergency than all previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts.
4. Information relevant for justifying the climate change reparations movement and for those nations suffering the consequences of climate change and that were not responsible for creating them.
5. The most critical legal actions that climate change activists, concerned citizens, mid-sized law firms, and lawyers must take to protect us from the greed, products, and toxic destructive actions of the global fossil fuel cartel.
6. Additional actions that also should be done after focusing on the before mentioned critical actions.
7. Notes for the Climate Justice Now Program.
The legal actions of the Climate Justice Now program are required because our governments and politicians have utterly failed us. Our media and even our big environmental groups have failed us. For decades, they have all failed to enforce the required, humanity-saving global fossil fuel reductions.
Because of this overwhelming and ongoing failure to act by those we have trusted to protect us, individuals, law firms, and protective government agencies bringing tens of thousands of justified worldwide lawsuits against the members of the global fossil fuel cartel is most likely humanity's last, best hope to stop the out-of-control, greed-intoxicated global fossil fuel cartel before it destroys most of humanity and the Earth's biological systems.
Please also be aware that the criminal acts information in the Climate Justice Now online public trial here will also supercharge the global fossil fuel disinvestment movement. Every university endowment, pension fund, bank, or investment firm will divest all fossil fuel investment holdings and will want to quickly distance itself from anything to do with the growing public relations nightmare surrounding the global fossil fuel cartel's decades of horrendous crimes against humanity (as described in detail here).
Introduction
It is time for climate change justice and climate damage restitution to be legally imposed upon the perpetrators of the global climate change emergency. On this page, you will learn what needs to be done to stop the global fossil fuel cartel from destroying most of humanity and much of Earth's biological life.
The climate change think tank publishers of this article are composed of climate change researchers and educators speaking uncensored climate change facts to power. Our mission-limited climate research, analysis, and educational status means that the ideas and legal positions being presented in these climate change justice pages will only bear fruit and help stop the global crimes and destruction of the cartel if you get involved and get this needed information to the people we suggest below.
How Decades of the Wrong Climate Change Target has Equalled Wrong Remedial Actions and Continuous Failure to Lower Global Fossil Fuel Usage
For over 40 years, most of the world has been looking at the wrong target and not seeing the dominant behind-the-scenes actor and true "villain" causing the climate change emergency. It is time for climate change justice and to turn the world's attention to the global fossil fuel cartel as the correct target causing our current climate change emergency.
Finally and unequivocally, having the correct climate change target empowers us:
a. to break the climate change disinformation stranglehold the cartel has had on the world's citizens for decades and educate the public on the correct threat level and dangers of the escalating climate change emergency.
b. to stop the insane "it's okay if almost everyone dies" cartel profit strategy,
c. to eliminate all cartel undue influence actions designed to stop, slow, or delay governmental regulations that would reduce global fossil fuel use and consequently fix the climate change emergency. And,
d. to file many thousands of lawsuits worldwide to get full financial restitution for all climate damage caused by the cartel's deadly products and actions.
e. to prevent crossing the atmospheric carbon level of 450 ppm, our last genuine chance to avoid a climate change mass extinction threshold that, once crossed, will lead to the near-certain extinction of about half of humanity by about 2050. (Exactly how and why half of humanity goes extinct from passing beyond the critical carbon 450 ppm threshold is covered on this page.)
Here are the critical ACTION steps we can take to end the climate change emergency and enforce climate justice
Step 1: The Climate Justice Now jury trial article must be shared worldwide to help promote the filing of thousands more legitimate lawsuits by individuals, businesses, investors, and governments against the global fossil fuel cartel for cartel-caused climate damage restitution.
Even if you personally have not experienced financial loss or damages due to climate change, it is critical to educate others who may have experienced climate change-related financial loss about their rights and of the ongoing climate justice and restitution movement to bring the global fossil fuel cartel to justice and make them pay for every climate change consequence they have caused.
If we do not quickly "wake up" millions of people to the realization that they have been the victims of a continuous and systematic global climate change disinformation campaign and vile cartel undue influence actions designed to harm them, their families, businesses, and nations they will not file the necessary new lawsuits to:
1. Get the financial restitution and other justice remedies they legally deserve. And,
2. They will not be able to help remove ALL ill-gotten profits from the cartel's decades of wrongdoing against them and humanity. History has proven time and time again that when the legal system removes all profit from ill-gotten gains from wrongdoing, the wrongdoing stops.
In other words, if you want to fix a problem, don't focus mainly on the problem; first, look for who is profiting from the problem and stop that from happening. Like magic, the problem will then start to disappear almost by itself.
Yes, climate activists can try to stop another oil pipeline, a new LGN production facility, or a new oil lease project, but that has never worked effectively to reduce the ever-rising levels of fossil fuel greenhouse gas pollution. It is time to move further up the consequences and result chain and take away the global fossil fuel cartel's ability to keep financing its pollution and death machine.
The way we do this is to get every individual, business, and local and national government to sue them for ALL damages, losses, and costs they have experienced because of the consequences of climate change. We are running out of time to save humanity and much of the planet's biological life. It is time for the most potent possible legal bitter medicine, which, in the fastest possible way, will remove all profits from cartel wrongdoing.
Below are the critical groups that you should contact soon as possible
As a non-profit educational climate think tank, we provide unpoliticized, uncensored, and accurate climate research information and analysis. Our limited climate research and analysis role means that ALL website visitors must individually share the climate change solutions and analysis on our website for us!
Furthermore, individual word-of-mouth sharing is the best way to spread uncensored climate change information most effectively under the current conditions. Personal word-of-mouth one-to-one sharing is critical because the global fossil fuel cartel has successfully manipulated, distorted, and censored the climate news you hear in the media and from your governments. Few will ever know the actual climate truth if you (and) we do not bypass the massive fossil fuel cartel-generated disinformation campaigns by going old-school, low-technology, and using the incredibly effective one-to-one word-of-mouth strategy.
There is no way the global fossil fuel cartel has the tools to keep you from speaking one-on-one in your circle of personal influence about the uncensored climate change truth and restitution for the victims of climate change. And, in a way, when you do this, you too will be single-handedly defeating the mighty global fossil fuel cartel and their billions spent on climate change disinformation and delaying or stopping fossil fuel reduction regulation.
We cannot fix the climate change emergency in time to save humanity without lots of intelligent and motivated individuals helping us to educate the world. You and your one-to-one information-sharing talents are more critical than ever to the future survival of humanity!
If you do not share our uncensored climate change information one-on-one by word-of-mouth, it will not reach enough people to make a difference before it is too late!
No matter where you live worldwide, you can start sharing our climate change information one-on-one by word-of-mouth using the steps below.
Get the 3-part Climate Change Now program, including this climate change trial page to:
a. every homeowner, business, and local community government harmed by climate change's direct or indirect consequences.
B. every farmer and farming association worldwide. As climate change consequences continue to escalate, farmers are already and will be among the worst-hit groups for financial losses because of the fossil fuels cartel's 40 years of destructive actions. Farmers, who are critical to our survival, need to know the actual cause of why so many more crops are failing beyond the normal levels of failure and low crop yields.
Worldwide low crop yields and crop failures are among the most predicted and earliest-arriving consequences of escalating global warming caused by climate change. As escalating climate change continues, global farming will be among the worst climate change-impacted industries. (Climate change-driven extreme weather events are defined, in part, as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods, flooding, sea level rise, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal, unseasonal, or record-breaking weather related to rapidly accelerating climate change.)
C. every investor who has lost money on any investment harmed by climate change consequences where the correct climate change risks were not properly disclosed in the investment portfolio by the brokers or investment firms.
D. every worldwide environmental and climate journalist you know or can contact.
Ask them also to start promoting and filing legitimate lawsuits against the fossil fuel cartel for the worldwide damages it has and is causing. The filing of legitimate lawsuits for cartel-caused climate damages will help remove all of the cartel's ill-gotten gains for destroying millions of lives and the environment.
Not much will survive unless climate and environmental organizations and journalists get this climate justice, jury, and litigation information and have the raw courage to define and reframe humanity's climate change emergency at a more accurate, honest, and practical level!
Please also share and post this jury trial article to all worldwide climate change and environmental newsgroups. Every climate-related newsgroup in every nation has the right to become aware of rising litigation against the cartel and the cartel's 40-year dark history and ongoing criminal actions.
E. every undeveloped nation's government agencies most responsible for managing climate change losses and damages so that they, too, may receive just financial restitution for the many climate change damages they and their people have experienced. Underdeveloped nonfossil fuel nations will suffer the most from climate change between the 35th parallel north and the 35th parallel south.
It is beyond the time for the underdeveloped nations that have been damaged by the toxic global fossil fuel pollution's many consequences, which were created by the wealthy developed nations, to stop being beggars. It is time for underdeveloped nations to stop begging under the table of the rich nations, meekly asking for nano-scraps of promised but seldom delivered financial assistance for the horrendous past and ongoing climate damages that rich nations have done to them.
It is time for undeveloped nations to stop being powerless beggars and start being empowered plaintiffs in new lawsuits against the wealthy nations and producers of toxic fossil fuel pollution and its many damages. This secondary action of filing lawsuits against rich nations should only be done after lawsuits have been initiated against the "deep financial pockets" of the global fossil fuel cartel, as described in the three parts of the Climate Justice Now program.
To help underdeveloped nations bring lawsuits against the nations producing toxic fossil fuel pollution since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (about 1800,) use a simple formula for the best estimate of how much total pollution a rich nation has produced since 1800. Then, compare that total pollution amount (probably in gigatons of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide) to how much every other rich developed nation has produced since 1800.
That calculation would give you a proportional amount of climate change damage that particular developed nation has produced in relation to every other rich developed nation. This calculation would then be used to determine how much would be paid by that rich developed nation to the undeveloped nations.
It is long past overdue for undeveloped nations harmed by climate change (which has been caused almost entirely by rich developed nations) to stop asking (begging) for financial crumbs and start taking the huge lawsuit judgments they deserve using every traditional and creative worldwide litigation avenue.
F. all indigenous, native, and First Nations peoples fighting the pollution and other toxic effects of the cartel on their lands and homes worldwide.
G. every media outlet covering worldwide climate change litigation and international climate conferences like the regular IPCC COP conferences.
H. the big environmental groups and climate change educational groups worldwide.
If they don't stop using fossil fuel-manipulated climate information, they will unknowingly keep promoting the current IPCC's grossly underestimated (30-60% underestimated) climate change consequences, timeframes, and climate change solutions. Wealthy environmental groups should also consider sponsoring class action lawsuits against the cartel to defend the area of the environment most closely associated with their mission.
I. mid-sized law firms seeking new business opportunities or specializing in class action lawsuits. Mid-sized law firms usually haven't accepted cases from fossil fuel cartel companies, which would make them ineligible to bring a case against the cartel. Midsize law firms are always looking for new opportunities for justice where the wrongdoer has deep financial reserves and the case itself will get much local or even national publicity.
J. your local, state, and national politicians and related agency heads who already believe that climate change is real. Now, they also need to understand what the global fossil fuel cartel is doing and how its disinformation has made fools of them.
While forwarding this article to your politicians, be sure to demand that they also pass the needed new climate change laws and take other legal actions against the global fossil fuel cartel described in this article. Demand your climate change accepting politicians explain their actions to resolve the Climate Change Double Dilemma (described previously).
Your local state and national politicians do not want to find themselves on the wrong side of history as wave after wave of worsening climate change consequences rips across the world, and the term Climate Change Global Holocaust begins appearing more often in the media.
If your local, state, or national politicians ignore you or do not "wake up" to the global fossil fuel cartel's disinformation about the insane current climate change threat level, then we strongly recommend you use the creative legal and peaceful protest tactics found on this page.
K. the world's climate change activists, who also can help get this article and Climate Justice Now program to all other individuals, businesses, and local, state, and national government agencies who have already experienced the expensive and devastating climate change consequences and are struggling to pay those damages caused by the global fossil fuel cartel's reckless regard for human life, health, and property. They need to understand what has happened to them is the result of the continuous intentional actions of the cartel over the last 40 years. They need to protect their taxpayers from having to pay the bill for the cartel's criminal actions.
There is already over $100 billion in claimed damages in over 2,000 lawsuits against the cartel. Eventually, the cartel will have to pay trillions of dollars, and many law firms will be willing to help the cartel's victims be made whole once again.
Insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide are aggressively canceling all climate change medium to high-risk policies because climate change is not an act of God or an accident, and they will not let themselves go bankrupt from rising costs caused directly by the products of the fossil fuel cartel. The only places left that cartel climate victims can be made whole and get restitution for the cartel's crimes and damages to their lives, homes, and businesses will be in the courts.
Also, get this article to individuals concerned about the damaging mass migrations going on worldwide so that they understand the real cause of these climate change-driven mass migrations and the conflicts they produce is the global fossil fuel cartel. And finally and most importantly...
L. all law firms and government agency attorneys or attorney generals currently involved in private or public lawsuits with fossil fuel-related companies (especially law firms specializing in class action lawsuits involved in helping climate victims get millions of dollars in restitution for climate change damages.)
These public and private attorneys and solicitors are the new heroes of the climate change emergency movement. Please write them personal letters thanking them for their courage. Some of these attorneys will soon become household names as the number and size of the judgments against the fossil fuel cartel rise. Some of them may parlay their highly public success against the cartel into new political positions.
When you write them, always ask them NEVER to seal any evidence or case records in any cartel settlement so everyone else can use those public records to forward their cases. The cartel is well financed, and only by keeping all of the evidence unsealed and public can individuals, small businesses, and small local governments afford to fight the cartel on a more level playing field. With those unsealed evidence and trial transcripts maintained, the litigation scales are better balanced, and "David" can take on "Goliath" in a fair litigation fight.
Today, thousands of individual and class action lawsuits against the cartel are happening worldwide. It is time for the worldwide lawyers and local, state, and national attorney generals for those victims and government agencies to not only prove in the courtrooms the cartel's continuous bad faith intent and many ongoing illegal actions over 40 years designed solely to prevent or slow:
a. any fossil fuel reductions from being enacted in law.
b. any legitimate climate change solutions from being taken seriously or enacted. And
c. the world's citizens from understanding the true nature of the danger the cartel's fossil fuel products upon their lives, businesses, communities, and nations.
If you know of any law firms who are also suing any of the global fossil fuel cartel companies, please let us know so we can add them to our master list below.)
Step 2: Stop using the fossil fuel conflict of interest ridden 30-60% grossly underestimated IPPC Summary Climate Change Reports and turn all IPCC COP climate conferences into a climate change shocking "wake up"global education event by doing the following:
Or, Why the COP 28 International climate conference was a total disaster.
The first thing this conference has to stop doing is using the fossil fuel conflict-of-interest-ridden 30-60% grossly underestimated IPPC Summary Climate Change Reports.
The second thing that needs to happen is to turn any future IPCC COP climate conferences into a climate change shocking "wake up"global education event by doing the following:
A. demanding that the IPCC use the correct climate sensitivity amount and immediately redo all of its 30-60% underestimated climate change consequence severity and timeframe calculations and its global fossil fuel reduction calculations and target dates. (For verification on the decades-long 30-60% gross underestimation of climate consequence severity and timelines and correct global fossil fuel reduction amounts required by the IPCC, see this page and its climate research and links.)
For decades, the IPCC has been using a fossil fuel-favoring grossly underestimated climate sensitivity amount. See this article for a full explanation of why this climate sensitivity underestimation by the IPCC is so critical to your future survival and why new IPCC summary reports must be re-calculated with the correct climate sensitivity amount and reissued immediately! And,
The IPCC's gross underestimation of climate sensitivity in its summary reports has some powerful, immediate impacts:
1. The world's citizens, governments, corporations, and media must demand that the IPCC's latest climate change summary report is immediately re-done and re-issued using the correct climate sensitivity constant, that all other known errors and omissions are also fixed, and that all fossil fuel favorable conflicts of interest are removed. Until this corrected new climate change summary report is issued, we strongly recommend discounting everything in the existing uncorrected report by 60%.
This IPCC underestimation crisis means that IPCC-predicted climate consequences can be viewed as being 60% worse than we are being told and will arrive 60% sooner than the IPCC has predicted. This underestimation crisis also means that the IPPC calculations for global fossil fuel calculations are 60% too little and must be achieved 60% sooner than the current IPCC fossil fuel reduction deadlines. (Please see this page, which summarizes the many decades of severe IPCC underestimation issues, critical calculation issues and omissions, and other IPCC methods to "cook" and distort the climate change calculations to allow the global fossil fuel cartel to continue selling even more fossil fuel amounts and avoid meaningful government regulations to reduce global fossil fuel use.)
If the IPCC does not immediately re-issue corrected climate change summary reports resolving its known conflict of interest, underestimation, and other issues, then the IPCC must be bypassed and discarded as a credible, trusted source of climate change information. Then, to get honest climate information to corporations, governments, the media, and the world's citizens, a new climate change research authority must be created independent of all fossil fuel or governmental conflicts of interest.
2. Because the IPCC's Climate Change Summary Reports have been widely, conclusively, and repeatedly shown by numerous peer-reviewed climate studies to be grossly underestimated by 60% and additionally politically compromised by fossil fuel interests having undue influence over the IPCC, any corporation or government who has used (or continues to use) the IPCC's Climate Change Summary Reports has a severe legal liability exposure in any climate change risk disclosures used in any of their purchase agreements, insurance policies, investment disclosures, or anywhere else their legal or agency documents discuss climate changes consequence risks. For example, this new liability exposure applies to zoning agencies that have issued future flood plain ratings based on IPCC Summary Report predictions.
This now means that all corporations and governments that used the IPCC's Climate Change Summary Reports in any of their risk disclosures for property purchases, insurance, investments, etc, must immediately update those disclosures with notices to their clients of the correct new levels of climate risk based on the corrected climate change consequence calculations that are not underestimated by 60%. This climate change-related risk and disclosure update may not shield the corporations and governments from past climate change consequence liabilities because proper due diligence by their chief executives and law firms should have discovered the well-documented and widespread prior challenges to the inaccuracy of IPCC's Summary Reports by the climate change science community.
Maybe you think we are exaggerating about how the fossil fuel cartel has been behaving. If you do, click here to read a shocking article by a trusted investigative global media newspaper that vigorously supports what we are saying about the global fossil fuel cartel. After reading this, you will never doubt that you have been systematically lied to by the cartel and its controlled parties about our actual climate change condition and its real risk and urgency.
The obscene amount of money that the cartel is willing to spend to make you and your politicians "climate change stupid" (described in the link above) makes the cigarette companies' expenditures look like a child's piggy bank.
B. calling attention to and focusing on the fossil fuel cartel's crimes against humanity and our biological systems.
C. calling for thousands of new worldwide lawsuits against the fossil fuel cartel where the cartel is held liable for full financial restitution for all the climate change damages its products and actions have caused.
What better time to call the world's attention to the crimes of the cartel and initiate more lawsuits to collect restitution for climate damages against the cartel? In fact, every media opportunity and climate conference that occurs going forward should be considered another opportunity to encourage all of the victims of climate change consequences to sue the fossil fuel cartel for financial restitution and publicly charge them for their ongoing crimes against humanity.
D. if you plan on going to any future IPCC climate conference, boycott them until the IPCC reissues its climate change summary reports re-calculated with the correct climate sensitivity amount.
Fossil fuel cartel members like the Emirates are not good-faith partners. We recommend these actions for everyone except those:
a. attending any future COP event to either report on or document the fossil fuel cartel's bad faith Machiavellian efforts to co-opt or control the climate change educational movement, their disinformation, their crimes against humanity, or to promote climate damage restitution lawsuits against the cartel.
b. seeing it as the best annual chance to publicly register and spread the climate change restitution demands of the developing world, which has been useful in forwarding climate change justice. The undeveloped world, in general, is and will suffer more climate change consequences than almost any other area.
If climate activists attend any IPCC COP or other international climate conferences, we hope they will vigorously educate those who do not yet understand the global fossil fuel cartel is not a good faith partner or legitimate sponsor of climate change education or legitimate climate change regulation because of what they have done for the last 40 years, are doing now, and will continue to do.
Beyond what has already been said in this article, here is a short list of reasons to either boycott future IPCC COP conferences or create a new annual Global Climate Change Forum where truly independent climate scientists, researchers, NGOs, think tanks, and activists can meet to speak "climate truth to power" and where the global fossil fuel cartel and its cronies will be excluded.
Here is why:
1. The cartel's infiltration of the environmental and climate change movements is widespread. This bad faith infiltration is designed to secretly and slowly co-opt the missions of these organizations and dilute and distort their climate change messages so the cartel can continue "business as usual" and keep selling even more fossil fuels for longer.
2. Naively optimistic green environmental staff and organizations have not yet learned the painful evolutionary lesson that not all cooperation and partnering is good. Legitimate cooperation is only wise cooperation with actual win/win outcomes and balanced reciprocal benefits.
Many hopeful and desperate climate activists who will attend IPCC COP conferences will look directly into the eyes of lavishly paid cartel executives, lobbyists, PR firm staff, shilling climate think tank staff and believe that their nice-sounding, very agreeable statements or that their fake negotiations are factual and can be relied upon when the whole purpose of these cartel personnel being there is to control the fossil fuel reduction message by subtly diluting it, delaying, it confusing it, or killing it. They seem to forget that for some nations, fossil fuel sales are the only or main income they have. Allowing anyone to require them not to sell as much fossil fuel would be unthinkable.
They can not go home to their cartel's bosses and expect to get paid (remember, the fossil fuel cartel is all about money) if they do not tell their bosses that they once again got the results of diluting, delaying, confusing, or killing the "radical global fossil fuel reductions now" message with more disinformation or other near invisible thwarting tactics. They can never let the genuine climate change radical fossil fuel reduction message go public. They must hide the correct global fossil fuel reductions of about 75% to meet the 2025 targets, or far more than half of the post-2050 surviving population not already condemned to death because of past fossil fuel tactics will also die.
These naive, optimistic, or uninformed activists will continue to believe that everything is going well when the cartel's personnel are smiling at them with their eyes shining. But their happy, cooperative appearance only means the cartel's personnel are laughing at the gullible activists and mentally counting their lavish next cartel bonuses.
3. Unfortunately, many environmental and climate organizations have also wrongly equated lavish cash sponsorships and huge donations from cartel members with true climate change progress. (True progress means immediate, radical global fossil fuel reductions to meet the 2025 global targets now at about 75% because they have been missed for decades.)
4. Recent cartel internal projection reports on future global fossil fuel production indicate that the global fossil fuel cartel fully expects to sell considerably MORE fossil fuel globally in 2050 than it is now. If that is not the precise dictionary definition of bad faith and a bad faith partner for a COP conference, I do not know what is. And,
5. Of course, no cartel member would ever give the environmental and climate change educational movements any cash if those nonprofit organizations demanded a genuine wise win/win partnership and that the global fossil fuel cartel fully comply with the real 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets.
6. And finally, there is a famous quote by Golda Meyer, one of the co-founders of the state of Israel, that truly has applicability in this situation. She said, "You cannot negotiate with someone who is coming to kill you."
After understanding everything in our 3 climate justice articles, it would be far beyond being only a climate change conference farce if legitimate climate change researchers and climate organizations went to future COP conferences thinking it will make a difference.
But if they go to future COP conferences to call attention to the cartel's crimes and the need for thousands more worldwide lawsuits and restitution awards for climate damages or turn what the COP into a highly public global indictment of the fossil fuel cartel that was also extensively covered in the international media, that truly would be a worthy goal.
Step 3: The climate emergency is not going well. Individuals, businesses, and nations must preserve themselves by beginning their climate change emergency preparations, adaptations, and resiliency-building programs.
The why is simple. If you do not survive, you will not be around to help fix this escalating climate nightmare.
Step two is surprising for many people. This surprise save-yourself action is necessary because:
1. The cartel's 40 years of actions to delay and prevent any fossil fuel reductions have caused the soon-arriving next wave of climate change consequences (2025-2031) to be deadly, horrendous, and unavoidable.
2. The reason to save-yourself is similar to what occurs on an airplane if there's an ongoing emergency. In an airline emergency, you are told to put on your oxygen mask first before trying to help your children or anyone else. That way, you can preserve yourself and your abilities to manage the emergency better and help others.
By getting emergency prepared and adapted for what is coming, you are among the few progressives who genuinely understand the severity and urgency of the climate change emergency. By getting prepared, you will be around far longer to help manage the causes of the climate change emergency and deal with its many consequences!
This "save yourself" action will give the many worldwide progressives the additional time, freedom, and ability to build the resources and resilience to survive the remaining long battle to slow down escalating climate change enough to help prevent humanity's near-total extinction.
If many progressives worldwide can survive the climate change extinction emergency, there will be a higher probability that after widespread climate collapse, progressive values like equality, sustainability, and justice will take root and become a new foundation for a better world for ALL.
3. There is no more time cushion or time left to delay these climate change emergency get-prepared actions. The fossil fuel cartel also stole your precious slow preparation time. Click here to see why the climate is going to be so much worse from 2025-2031.
Because of ever-rising heat and accelerating climate change, extreme weather consequences like rain bombs, droughts, etc., there will be far more lowered crop yields and crop failures. This increasing crop-sensitive extreme weather will lead to soaring food prices and mass starvation. This mass starvation will then lead to the mass migrations of hundreds of millions of people, leading to ever-increasing global border and resource conflicts. (Click here for the step-by-step details on how the global fossil fuel cartel enabled and facilitated global climate catastrophe will unfold.)
One non-profit organization that is on the cutting edge and will help you prepare your home, business, or community for the next wave of the climate change nightmare is Climatesafe Villages. It provides open access for all to its critical climate change emergency preparation, adaptation, and resilience-building information. Click here or the image below to learn more about ClimateSafe Villages.
Step 4: Have the world's political leaders create verifiable, and enforceable national and international climate laws and treaties with clear violation punishments.
This will take more time to achieve, but we must:
a. achieve the honest 2025 global fossil fuel reductions in time to save us from extinction. These laws will include government-enforced fossil fuel rationing. (There would be a necessary temporary exception for the world's military and police forces to maintain order while they convert their fossil fuel vehicles to green energy sources.)
We will need to eliminate all fossil fuel sources until we reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases back to the safe carbon level of carbon 270-350 ppm, which had existed for hundreds of thousands of years before the fossil fuel-powered Industrial Revolution began. (We are currently at about carbon 423 ppm. Click here for all new climate laws needed.)
b. rapidly remove ALL government fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks from all fossil fuel energy generation and supply industries.
c. incentivize full fossil fuel divestment from the dying global fossil fuel cartel.
d. increase the tax rates on all global fossil fuel cartel profits.
e. mandate laws that the fossil fuel cartel and related corporations pay for all environmental and health damages caused by their products and their 40 years of actions to thwart global fossil fuel use reductions. (If these laws are not passed soon, our governments and, ultimately, their citizens will have to pay for these damages as worldwide insurance companies abandon all policies covering damages from climate change consequences.)
f. initiate legal actions that ensure sufficiently severe legal and financial punishments for all politicians, fossil fuel senior executives, and fossil fuel cartel lobbying firms, think tanks, public relations firms, media firms, investment firms, and any majority stockholders that help to create, promote or continue the climate change emergency or hindered its resolution.
Fossil fuel senior executives or those who control them must be held primarily liable in national and International court actions for their most severe and heinous crimes against humanity and crimes against the biosphere because of:
1. their toxic products
2. their 40 years of actions to prevent global fossil fuel reductions or,
3. their continuing to violate the new national and international climate change reduction laws and treaties or,
4. their acts in any future way that would slow or hinder the legally mandated implementation of all new global climate change reduction laws.
g. Ensure a fair legal process to determine the individuals and companies most responsible for all global climate change damages and losses. This fairness process must be part of our first principles for true climate change justice. For example, when you are looking over all of the things we need to do to stop the life-destroying actions of the global fossil fuel cartel below, remember that we must also identify and take care of the innocent fossil fuel industry employees and other related employees who did not know of, approve, or engage in the Machiavellian cartel actions listed above.
The funds raised from the court's legal repayment and punishment actions described below will go to many areas (described on this page). Still, one of the most critical areas for funding is caring for non-senior executives working within the global fossil fuel cartel-related industries, eventually losing their jobs. We must use part of the funds collected below for national and international non-fossil fuel industry job transition training, support, and recovery. There must be help and support for everyone below the senior fossil fuel executives and related company executives whose livelihoods will be hurt by the required, sudden, and radical reductions in global fossil fuel use and the other actions listed below.
Step 5: If you are or you know of witnesses to the global fossil fuel cartel's crimes, read the following.
There is now a worldwide Climate Change WhistleBlower support organization helping to surface and protect old and new witnesses willing to speak to the media and in trial courts about the many past and ongoing crimes of the global fossil fuel cartel. If you are a witness or know a witness, please connect them to the following group or to your local criminal and legal authorities.
For the Climate WhistleBlowers Website, click here. (Laura Paquemar is a Project officer at Climate Whistleblowers.)
Additional actions that also should be done after focusing on the before-mentioned critical actions
a. Demand that the International Criminal Court begin and expand new legal actions against global fossil fuel cartel members and its senior or controlling or managing executives.
There have never been crimes against humanity and all biological life on Earth planet close to the scale of what is being perpetrated by the global fossil fuel cartel. If prosecuting the global fossil fuel cartel members does not fall within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, what in God's name does, and why do they even exist?
Climate change cases against the global fossil fuel cartel should fall within the International Criminal Court's (ICC) jurisdiction. Legal actions against the cartel are within the ICC's jurisdiction because of:
a. the ongoing intentional crimes against humanity by the cartel and,
b. because of the ongoing deadly results of its products, which continue to kill at least 10 million people annually.
This page and some of the evidence listed further below in the evidence section document and demonstrate the global fossil fuel cartel's ongoing crimes against humanity and other ongoing international crimes.
b. Sign two petitions to stop the ongoing insanity of the global fossil fuel cartel and pass the needed new laws:
1. Click here to sign the Job One for Humanity climate change extinction emergency petition to get our politicians to enact the needed new fossil fuel regulations.
2. Click here to sign the Action Network petition to get more national and state-by-state government agencies suing the global fossil fuel cartel for the damages it has and is continuing to cause.
c. Demand the United Nations establish a fundamental new international human right of Climate Asylum. This right would exist for any individual who has been displaced by the consequences of climate change, which has been primarily caused by northern developing nations worldwide.
Climate Asylum would allow any individual to migrate from any country harmed by climate change to one not experiencing the same level of climate change consequences. The poor and underdeveloped nations must lead the push at the United Nations to get the right of climate asylum recognized as a universal and fundamental human right.
Climate Asylum must become a primary new tenant of the climate justice movement. Click here to see how this new international right of Climate Asylum will significantly benefit those countries taking in climate migrants (aka climagees).
d. All environmental groups, climate activists, and media stop using the term climate change by itself and start using the terms climate change extinction emergency, climate change global holocaust, or global heating extinction emergency.
Click here for the four most critical reasons why we must do this now to defeat one of the cartel's earliest climate change confusion-generating tactics. After the four reasons, there is also a pledge you can sign regarding making the language change.
e. mandate new laws that all non-fossil-fuel-divested businesses, individuals, and nations also be held co-liable for financial restitution for all climate change damages caused by the global fossil fuel cartel as ongoing co-conspirators.
This page contains a list of law firms that may be able to help the many worldwide victims of climate change. New lawsuits immediately start the process of removing all profit from cartel wrongdoing. Eventually and hopefully soon, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, its related companies, its senior executives, and its associated enablers may prove to become more effective in ending the climate change extinction emergency than previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts. This page also contains essential information about climate change damage restitution lawsuits.
Here are the Evidence Submissions for the Cartel Public Trial Page
Click here for the master list of evidence and documentation for the global fossil fuel cartel jury trial and for ongoing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel. We just moved this page because it is expanding quickly.
Click Here Now if You Are Ready to Vote if the Global Fossil fuel Cartel is Guilty of Causing Climate change and Financially Responsible for all Climate change Loss and Damage.
Notes for the Climate Justice Now Program
Never forget, suing the global fossil fuel cartel members for your climate damages or telling others to sue will help to save humanity from mass extinction by helping to prevent humanity's crossing the last chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm (parts per million) tipping point. (This page thoroughly explains this last chance for humanity to stay below the carbon 450 ppm tipping point.)
Other notes:
1. This editorial article results from creative suggestions by Barry Gander and Dan Hardy's climate research opinions. The Job One climate change research team and numerous other climate researchers and activists outside of Job One (who wish to remain anonymous) have also significantly contributed to the final opinions, editing, and materials in the Climate Justice Now program.
We again ask crowd-sourced worldwide individuals concerned about the climate change emergency and the crimes of the global fossil fuel cartel to let us know if you see ways we can improve our online cartel trial or our Climate Justice Now program. If you see any errors or missing essential information, email your suggestions to ([email protected]).
Please also feel free to comment under the articles and always keep sending this article to anyone harmed by the cartel's accelerating climate change consequences.
2. In some ways, one has to admire the twisted and dark brilliance of the world's wealthiest cartel hiring the best lobbyists, best public relations firms, and other super-talented influence-wielding team members that money can buy to dumb down the whole world concerning the honest facts of climate change while simultaneously thwarting any regulation effort to reduce its ability to spew ever more toxic greenhouse gas pollution into our atmosphere.
The global fossil fuel cartel has successfully spent the last 40 years making it nearly impossible for the world's citizens to understand the real dangers they face from accelerating climate change. At the same time, the fossil fuel cartel has made it impossible for our politicians to enact honest and effective fossil fuel reductions or other critical fossil fuel cartel regulations involving cartel financial liability for their products and 40 years of disinformation.
If that is not an absolutely brilliant two-tiered strategy executed with near-unlimited funds, I don't know what could be better or more effective. The cartel has disempowered average citizens at the bottom with little political power and deactivated and compromised politicians at the top with near-absolute power.
The global fossil fuel cartel has corrupted human society's critical and necessary corrective processes by making it impossible for the general population to rationally look at correct climate change facts while simultaneously inhibiting our politicians from acting to protect the common well-being. The cartel has brilliantly made it so that "the people can't think accurately about climate change, and the politicians can't act."
Congratulations to the global fossil fuel cartel and its minions. They have not only doomed billions of us to unimaginable financial losses, suffering, and death, but they have also mindlessly condemned themselves and their children to the exact same eventual climate change consequence-driven fate.
And finally, don't forget that global climate change consequences costs are already so high that insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide are rapidly canceling their insurance policies in any climate change medium to high-risk areas at the fastest rates in insurance history. That means if the insurance companies do not pay for climate change, you will pay directly or through higher taxes unless the cartel is made to pay. See this article then this article for more about increasing insurance cancellations.
3. When we say villain, we speak of wrong or evil actions caused by greed or ignorance. Each reader has to decide whether it is one or the other, or both.
4. Job One never takes donations or consulting work from the global fossil fuel cartel or its related companies because of reasons found in the article.
5. If humanity is uncharacteristically climate change lucky, it may have until as late as 2031 to make the radical fossil fuel reductions needed to save most of the other half of humanity post-2050.
6. This article is provided as an open-access service by Job One for Humanity, a 100% publicly funded, independent, and not-for-profit climate change think tank, always speaking the uncensored climate facts to power. Click here for more about this not-for-profit organization and its climate research and analysis processes.
7. The Job One organization that has published these pages unequivocally endorses only lawful legal processes and peaceful protest actions.
8. We strongly recommend watching The Earth 2100 video by ABC TV because it is even truer today than in 2009. This ABC TV video also helps explain why ClimateSafe Villages exist, and it does so considerably easier than all the climate science links on the Job One website. It may send a chill through your whole being. Please share it with anyone you know who is seriously concerned about climate change and their future.
To watch the spellbinding Earth 2100 ABC TV video, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqRpM72Odg
Here are a few of the 2009 ABC video limitations and inaccuracies and a few 2023 climate updates
Over half of the above video's climate change timeframe and consequence predictions are relatively accurate. But many other critical consequences and timeframes are underestimated by as much as 30 to 60%. We suspect ABC TV was using the widely available climate science funded or influenced by the well-funded global fossil fuel cartel's disinformation campaigns. The following is part of what needs to be updated regarding this 2009 ABC video:
a. Most of what the ABC video says will happen by 2100 will probably be happening between 2060 and 2070.
b. ABC did get very close to James Hanson's research, where he said once humanity crosses the carbon 386 parts per million in the atmosphere level, global warming becomes runaway global warming. That occurred in 2015. (Hansen is one of the world's most respected climate change researchers.)
c. At the end of the video, where ABC proposes climate change solutions, they are far from being in the correct priority sequence, and those ABC solutions will not save humanity in time from the worst climate change consequences! This ABC climate solution error is critical because they assert that our lives could be better by 2050 if we did the solutions they recommend. If we follow their suggestions, half the world's population will die by 2050. (See the documentation section below for the correct solutions governments must enact.)
Their proposed climate solutions are also tech and Wall Street finance-friendly. The idea we will "invest our way out of this crisis" is nonsense and shows they do not understand the honest climate change timeframes and consequences. We have to radically cut fossil fuels right now to have any hope of having even a much smaller portion of humanity surviving. Climate change "business as usual" means we will cross more extinction-level climate change tipping points from 2025-2031.
d. Nowhere in the ABC climate solutions do they call for sacrifice for our own families and future generations.
e. More 2023 climate change updates are on our website.
f. The ABC TV video is also great because it visually helps many understand why so many other individuals are waking up to their climate change-driven future and facing why they must immediately start preparing, adapting, and building climate change resilience in their homes, businesses, and communities.
9. And almost as comic relief, we recommend watching Kingsman: The Secret Service. It is about a wealthy billionaire megalomaniac enlisting the other ultra-wealthy who want to deal with a runaway climate change global heating emergency by intentionally wiping out most of humanity. In a manner of poetic justice, this movie will show how well that "1% versus the 99%" survival strategy works for the 1% trying to save themselves from an endless cascading convergence of climate catastrophes.
10. For argument's sake, let's assume that sooner or later, your politicians will act to radically cut their national global fossil fuel use, but unfortunately, there is another huge problem. There is nothing to guarantee that other nations will do the same. Those non-agreeing nations could even capture a considerable competitive advantage over nations who do reduce their fossil fuel use if they hold out and do not reduce their national fossil fuel use.
This is the essence of our current evolutionary tragedy. Humanity has not yet evolved a global governing body with the power to make and enforce global laws and punish nation-state violators. Contemporary evolutionary theory indicates that competitive human groups will unite with other competitive groups only when there is an exterior threat to both groups so profound and overwhelming that their survival is at stake if they do not cooperate and unite.
The petrifying amount of global fossil fuel cartel-caused deaths since the 1800s and projected until 2050 of more than 3 and 1/5 billion leads us to another wild but theoretically applicable question with global evolutionary implications:
"If an alien force was attacking Earth and their weapons could reach every nation, and it was obvious that hundreds of millions, if not billions, would die --- if they were not quickly defeated, do you think the nations of the world would finally put aside their competitive positions and unite as one world fighting force to fight and deal with the alien attack?"
Paradoxically and ironically, we are now facing the same kind of all-but-certain mass deaths (of half the human population by 2050) because of:
1. one for-profit cartel's insane greed and actions,
2. the 223 years of the accumulated toxic and heat-generating consequences of their products on our shared atmosphere.
Worse yet, if we do not make radical global fossil fuel reductions and come close to the 2025 global targets, many post-2050 human survivors will likely die.
Are not the accelerating climate change extinction consequences every bit as much of a global threat to every nation and every person as powerful hostile aliens attacking the Earth? Are not the consequences of the climate change emergency affecting ALL of Earth no different than the dangers of alien weapons capable of decimating any area of Earth?
What will it finally take for this jury and humanity to take the next evolutionary steps? Will we come together as one united planet and finally execute climate change justice to save ourselves before it is too late? Or, will we wait to make the required changes until we have experienced the greatest possible trauma in human history of three-plus billion preventable deaths and widespread global collapse?
11. As we cut fossil fuels, worldwide military and police forces would be exempt from fossil fuel reductions to maintain order during that difficult transition
12. More about the Job One climate change thing tank and its research and analysis methodology, click here.
13. Click here for more about the Climatesafe Villages nonprofit organization. It provides open-access information for climate change emergency preparation, adaptation, and resilience-building actions for homes, businesses, and communities. Click here or the image below to learn more about ClimateSafe Villages.
14. Click here for the Job One Climate Change Plan B. It wisely deals with the reality that the global fossil fuel cartel has already put the survival of humanity at extreme risk. It contains emergency preparation, adaptation, resilience-building actions, and all the other things we and our governments must do before it is too late to save much of humanity.
15. Watch and share this new video on who is the real perpetrator of climate change by clicking the image below. In just its first months, it had almost 5,500 views.
16. In the link below are ten honest and crucial climate change facts the global fossil fuel cartel is currently hiding from you. Now that you understand the fossil fuel cartel's hidden climate change propagation role, it is time to discover the ten uncensored climate change emergency facts the global fossil fuel cartel NEVER wants you to know! Click here for the ten most critical climate facts.
17. This page contains a list of law firms that may be able to help the many worldwide victims of climate change. New lawsuits immediately start the process of removing all profit from cartel wrongdoing. Eventually and hopefully soon, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, its related companies, its senior executives, and its associated enablers may prove to become more effective in ending the climate change extinction emergency than previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts. This page also contains essential information about climate change damage restitution lawsuits.
18. Will our global politicians make the tough decisions to enact the required 2025 global fossil fuel reductions to save at least as much of post-2050 humanity as possible? The research team at Job One doubts it. Politicians know that with such an unpopular and hated decision, their time in office would be over quickly.
There is also the position that politicians in the wealthy, developed northern nations might decide to reduce fossil fuels to the correct 2025 targets. But only after they seal their borders tightly to prevent mass migration into their nations and while quietly and privately justifying their position with the rationalization that most people would be dying would be from poor, undeveloped southern nations and not their citizens.
We believe that it is far more likely most politicians will once again "kick the climate change emergency "can" down the road until they are out of office and have preserved their well-paying jobs and pensions for as long as possible. Most politicians have been fossil fuel disinformation compromised in one way or another. In addition to the steady stream of "authoritative appearing" climate change disinformation, the cartel has provided most of our politicians with lavish campaign financing and other lobbyist-delivered official and unofficial, likely off-the-books perks.
Most of our politicians will believe the self-serving fossil fuel cartel's disinformation and think that only distant future generations suffer. Quite conveniently, they will be long gone from office by that time. Most politicians erroneously believe the worst climate consequences will occur decades from now, and they and their families will not suffer any personal or political consequences.
To help justify and rationalize their grossly negligent climate change inaction, our politicians will carefully examine their climate change public opinion surveys, which have also been strongly influenced by decades of the same cartel disinformation programs. In these cartel disinformation-distorted public opinion surveys, they will see a large percentage of their constituents believe that climate change is a hoax, that the horrible climate consequences are many decades away (sometime after 2100, or that new technologies will save us at the last minute anyway so we do not have to make big fossil fuel cuts now.
A famous quote by the American humorist and author Mark Twain speaks volumes to this additional disinformation quagmire that the cartel has created within our politicians;
"It is hard to teach a man something that his livelihood depends upon not knowing." Mark Twain
18. Please also consider and think about what the cartel has done in one more completely new way. Consider for a moment that you also have been secretly subjected to a 40-year-long global geoengineering experiment that no government has ever authorized.
This secret geoengineering program is doing exactly what geoengineering programs are designed to do: they alter the global atmosphere, weather, oceans, or other critical Earth systems and conditions essential for ALL life to continue to exist. Worse yet, this secret geoengineering experiment is being conducted solely to increase the cartel's business profits.
This geoengineering experiment has occurred because of decades of the cartel pumping toxic carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide into our atmosphere. But the most shocking evil here is that the creators of this geoengineering experiment have known for 40 years that their experimental geoengineering of our atmosphere would eventually cause billions of deaths and the extinction of thousands of biological species.
Therefore, unless we all also begin to see the cartel's despicable actions from the applicable new perspective of the cartel running a secret, unauthorized, and wildly dangerous geoengineering experiment, the cartel will continue its insane, greed-fueled mass extinction experiment until almost everything on Earth is dead.
19. As the reader, you are also a jury member of the cartel trial found on this page. If you did not vote yet on the cartel's guilt, you are asked to vote using an online survey form. Click here to vote guilty or not guilty if the perpetrator of climate change is causing the climate change emergency; the damages climate change has caused, and the crimes against humanity, as presented in the trial above.
Below are links to the various parts of the Climate Justice Now program
The Climate Justice Now Program Overview Page:
Click here for this quick overview of the 3 parts of the Climate Justice Now program. It covers the gold of the program and why the program is critical at this moment in climate change history.
The Climate Justice Action Page 1:
Click here for Part 1, which is an online public trial of the perpetrators of climate change and their shocking crimes against humanity over the last 4-6 decades.
It is a must-read for even hardened climate change activists and researchers because it lays out the full spectrum of serious crimes committed by the perpetrators of climate change, many of which have never been seen before.
The Climate Change Trial Evidence Page 2a:
Click here for the master list of evidence and documentation for the global fossil fuel cartel jury trial found on the page above.
The Climate Change Trial Evidence Page 2:
Click here for the master list of evidence and documentation for the global fossil fuel cartel jury trial found on the page above.
The Climate Change Law Firm Listing and Law Suit Tips Page 3:
Click here for a list of law firms that may be able to help the many worldwide victims of climate change. Simply because it directly and immediately starts removing all profit from cartel wrongdoing. Eventually and hopefully soon, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, related companies, senior executives, and associated enablers may prove to become more effective in ending the climate change extinction emergency than previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts.
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We are actively recruiting new volunteers worldwide to work specifically on promoting the Climate Justice Now program and its actions. Click here to become a volunteer in the Climate Justice Now program and help forward the justice actions described on this page and throughout the Climate Justice Now pages.
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The above opinion page is provided by the Job One Research and Analysis team.
The Climate Justice Now Program: Get Justice and Financial Restitution for Climate Change Victims
Last updated 3.14.24.
Over 2,000 lawsuits in at least 28 countries have been filed against global fossil fuel cartel members. These lawsuits currently involve hundreds of billions of dollars in loss and damage actions.
Over the next ten to fifteen years, it is estimated that the global fossil fuel cartel will eventually be forced to pay out trillions of dollars in loss and damage reparation payments to governments and in loss and damage judgments to private individuals and businesses in litigation worldwide.
Eventually, the total worldwide climate change loss and damage payouts from all fossil fuel cartel litigation will be exponentially larger than all of the billions of dollars paid in cigarette, asbestos, and opioid judgments.
About Job One for Humanity's Climate Justice Now program
The Climate Justice Now program is designed around a simple goal that embodies the most profound meaning of climate justice. It is also based on a simple legal principle:
Those who have caused, facilitated, or enabled climate change loss and damage must be forced to pay for that loss and damage and be held liable for any criminal actions committed while doing so.
Homeowners, businesses, insurance companies, innocent investors, local, county, state, or national governments, or their innocent taxpayers must never be required to pay for the climate change loss and damage caused by the intentional and decades-long acts of the perpetrators of climate change.
In other words, when you take all of the profits away from those parties causing climate change, the climate change crisis will end.
Why the Climate Justice Now program must expand worldwide?
There are many good reasons why the Climate Justice Now program must rapidly expand worldwide:
a. no previous climate change treaty has lowered or slowed greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning, which causes global warming.
b. none of the previous 28 COP international climate change conferences sponsored by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have lowered or slowed greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning.
c. not even decades of massive worldwide climate change street protests have stopped or even slowed climate change from worsening at even faster rates!
d. every national, state, and local government aware of the climate change emergency has also utterly failed for over 60 years to do anything that has lowered the ever-rising toxic and polluting greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere.
e. Our politicians are so fossil fuel cartel compromised that nothing will get done to reduce global fossil use adequately or in time to avert mass extinction. (Our governments have failed primarily because of a massive, multi-billion dollar, decades-long climate change disinformation campaign created by the global fossil fuel cartel as described here.)
f. If we do not focus most of our combined efforts on something more effective than what has been done for the last 60 years, we will soon experience a climate change nightmare resulting eventually in a global Climageddon event.
There is no doubt that our fossil fuel cartel-compromised politicians and governments have utterly failed to control the escalating climate change emergency. The best proof of their gross and embarrassing total failure is the ever-rising amounts of carbon (C02,) methane (CH4,) and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
Atmospheric carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide levels ARE the most valid objective measurements that clearly show if our fossil fuel cartel-paralyzed politicians and governments are making legitimate progress in fixing climate change.
As of February 3, 2020 our atmospheric CO2 level was carbon 426 ppm. Looking at the atmospheric carbon graph (CO2) just above and then the greenhouse gas graph with methane and nitrous oxide on it a bit further down this page, it becomes painfully evident that anyone who is telling you that we are making progress on fixing climate change and preventing escalating endless climate change catastrophes, either:
1. does not know how to read an atmospheric carbon, methane, or nitrous oxide graph (all of which are getting worse at even faster rates) or
2. does not understand the complex climate change science, or its mathematics, and physics, or
3. has financial interests incentivizing their actions to keep the global public ignorant of climate change's real danger and risk level. (Click here to see humanity's current uncensored actual climate change risk level.) or,
4. Is lying through their teeth for some other unknown reason.
The greenhouse gas graph below highlights today's painful story of all three major atmospheric greenhouse gases: carbon (CO2), methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O), which come from burning fossil fuel and its toxic pollution.
The greenhouse gas graph is from the United Nations IPCC summary report. The numbers at the bottom of the greenhouse gas illustration below are the historical AD dates.
Notice how, from about 1950 to 1980, the rates of toxic and poisonous fossil fuel-caused greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere began to rise exponentially.
After looking at the above two graphs showing the actual results of everything our politicians and governments have done to reduce global fossil fuel use over the last 4-6 decades, only someone in complete denial or delusional would still say we are making any global fossil fuel reduction progress, or that what we are currently doing to reduce fossil fuel use is working!
Our accelerating global heating threat is now so great that we have no other choice but to bypass the disinformed, compromised, or cowardly politicians who have failed to protect us. To protect the future of humanity, we must bypass and act directly using the three parts of the Climate Justice Now program.
A considerable part of the new Climate Justice Now program is to:
a. share the results and information from ALL of the climate change perpetrators' worldwide crimes on display in a completed online public trial found here.
b. do everything possible to support new worldwide lawsuits to help the victims of the perpetrators of climate change receive full financial restitution for the damages they have suffered as a consequence of climate change.
c. connect with and collaborate with all of the other organizations worldwide working for climate justice now on common projects and events.
What is the True Urgency of the Climate Justice Now Program?
There are two main reasons:
1. At this point, current climate science also strongly suggests that only a worldwide and rapidly scaling up the Climate Justice Now program has any realistic hope of preventing humanity from crossing the last-chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm near-total extinction threshold.
If we cross the last chance carbon 450 ppm threshold and tipping point, we enter into the second phase of runaway global warming, and about half of humanity will perish by 2050. That tipping point threshold of carbon 450 ppm will come up in eight years (or considerably less if we keep adding more carbon annually at the current 2024 rate of almost six carbon ppm.)
Click here to learn why reaching carbon 450 PPM is our eventual mass human extinction.
(Click here for a deeper dive into the climate science on why the carbon 450 ppm threshold is humanity's climate change point of no return for the critical climate stability essential to human life.)
2. Over the last 60 years, the world's many environmental groups have also totally failed with every strategy and tactic they have ever used to reduce or even slow the amount of toxic global warming accelerating greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere. Because of points 1 and 2, the urgency to find a truly effective way to fix climate change immediately (like the Climate Justice Now program could not be more real!
Click here to see those strategies that work too slowly for our current threat level.
Click here to see the strategies that will not work in time.
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Why the Climate Justice Now program will work to lower greenhouse gases where many past environmental and climate programs have failed
There is an old and wise saying:
"The quickest way to solve a problem is to remove all profit from everyone who benefits from the problem. The problem will then "magically" begin to disappear."
With every lawsuit filed and every lawsuit won, the fossil fuel industry has less profit and, therefore, less ability to continue to pollute the atmosphere and environment with its deadly toxic products.
Our new Climate Justice Now program is critical because:
1. It exposes the actual perpetrators of climate change in many new ways and the climate change facts the perpetrators never want anyone to know.
2. It allows the victims of climate change consequences to get financial restitution for their losses and damages from the perpetrators of climate change.
3. It can rapidly take the profit out of the climate change perpetrator's wrongful actions and rapidly and significantly diminish the perpetrator's resources and ability to continue its toxic, polluting actions on all humanity and biological life.
With far fewer resources, the global fossil fuel cartel will not be able to explore new fossil fuel deposits, nor will it be able to extract those fossil fuels and add them to the marketplace. The remaining fossil fuel supplier's costs will rise so high that they must raise their prices far beyond where they are now, which will incentivize and speed the transition to green, nonpolluting energy sources. With enough successful lawsuits, it will become impossible for the global fossil fuel cartel to continue selling its toxic, polluting products.
When individuals, businesses, local communities, and state and national governments file their lawsuits for loss and damage (and in some areas of government criminal acts), we bypass the failures of our politicians and our slow-moving fossil fuel conflict-ridden legislatures. We put direct power and direct action directly into the hands of individuals, businesses, local communities, and state and national governments. This direct action strategy with powerful profit-removing consequences is our best chance to save humanity from crossing the last chance, carbon 450 ppm extinction accelerating tipping point.
Here are the audiences for the Climate Change Now program and its climate change victim financial restitution information
In this surge of worldwide litigation against the perpetrators of climate change, many different types of climate change victims are now suing the perpetrators of climate change:
a. home buyers (who were not accurately told how climate change could or would risk or damage their home purchase by real estate brokers or mortgage companies.)
b. farmers, farm cooperatives, and farmers’ associations. (Farmers are currently disproportionately suffering massive financial losses from crop failures and low crop yields due to escalating climate change-related consequences. Climate change-driven extreme weather events are defined, in part, as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods, flooding, sea level rise, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal, unseasonal, or record-breaking weather related to rapidly accelerating climate change.)
c. business owners (who have suffered loss and damage because of the many primary and secondary consequences of climate change.)
d. investors who were not accurately told how escalating climate change could or would threaten or risk their investments. (Many investors have suffered losses in various traditional and non-traditional investment vehicles where the actual climate change risks contained within those investments were inadequately disclosed or significantly underestimated and where if a non-negligent, due diligence review had been done by those offering such investments, those investments would have had to reveal significantly higher possible to probable climate change consequences and climate loss-related risks.)
e. local governments and local agencies. (Local taxpayers are being forced to pay for cartel-caused climate change damages that insurance company policies do not cover and they did not cause.)
f. state attorney generals and national government agencies. State and national taxpayers are getting stuck with the soaring costs of climate change consequences as more insurance companies cancel climate change-exposed insurance policies. (More state attorney generals and government agencies are filing litigation against the cartel to recover the financial losses and damages for their taxpayers.)
g. undeveloped nations who also have experienced vastly disproportional climate change loss and damage in relation to the total fossil fuel pollution they have produced or put in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution about 1800 are now using the courts to recover their climate losses and damages instead of continuing to beg and wait for the “too little too late” help they were promised at international climate conferences.
h. companies involved in green energy generation or green energy products. The fossil fuel cartel had extensive programs to stop or reduce green energy subsidies or stop or slow laws that would have made the global transition to green energy far easier and faster. Had it not been for the global fossil fuel cartel's anti-green energy actions, the world would be decades ahead in the green energy transition, and our current climate change consequences would be far less. (See this online trial for more information.)
i. climate change activists around the world.
Here are the Climate Justice Now program's main parts
Part 1: is the online public trial of the perpetrators of climate change and their crimes. This online trial details decades of cartel toxic pollution, disinformation, and criminal actions. It succinctly explains why worldwide law firms, attorneys, and government authorities will eventually recover trillions of dollars in climate change loss and damage awards and settlements for their clients or countries.
Law firms, attorneys, and government authorities are currently using this online trial to quickly get their litigation teams up to speed on cartel litigation, crimes, and tort charge options. The many new disclosures in this online cartel public trial have unsettled and even surprised the most hardened and well-educated climate change activists. This page also includes support organizations for whistleblowers on cartel crimes.
Click here for Part 1, which is an online public trial of the perpetrators of climate change and their shocking crimes against humanity over the last 4-6 decades.
It is a must-read for even hardened climate change activists and researchers because it lays out the full spectrum of serious crimes committed by the perpetrators of climate change, many of which have never been seen before.
Part 2: Click here for the master list of evidence and documentation for the global fossil fuel cartel jury trial and for ongoing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel. We just moved this page because it is expanding quickly.
Part 3: lists existing financial climate change damage restitution court cases against the perpetrators of climate change, lists law firms that can help you with litigation against the perpetrators of climate change damage, and provides powerful tips on filing a climate change damage restitution lawsuit for damage that you, your business, or your government have experienced. Click here for Part 3.
Part 4: Click here for a list of law firms that may be able to help the many worldwide victims of climate change. Simply because it directly and immediately starts removing all profit from cartel wrongdoing. Eventually and hopefully soon, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, related companies, senior executives, and associated enablers may prove to become more effective in ending the climate change extinction emergency than previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts.
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Law Firms & Resources for Climate Change Litigation Against Fossil Fuel Companies. Get Your Financial Restitution for Climate Change Loss and Damage
Prologue
The Climate Justice Now program is designed for victims of climate change consequences and damages around a simple goal that embodies the most profound meaning of climate justice. It is also based on a simple legal principle:
Those who have caused, facilitated, or enabled climate change loss and damage must be forced to pay for that loss and damage and be held liable for any criminal actions committed while doing so.
Homeowners, businesses, insurance companies, innocent investors, local, county, state, or national governments, or their innocent taxpayers must never be required to pay for the climate change loss and damage caused by the intentional, decades-long acts of the perpetrators of climate change.
After you are done reading these climate change damages recovery and litigation materials to help restore your financial stability, please share them with everyone else who has been harmed by climate change consequences. They deserve to be compensated AND perpetrators of climate change also need to be punished or it will never stop getting worse.
We strongly recommend that you do not start planning to rebuild or repair after a climate change disaster until you have read all of the Climate Justice Now program pages and you have read about locations that will be one climate change disaster after another. All of this information is found on this website and it is free.
(This page is part three of the Climate Justice Now program. For later reading, the full Climate Justice Now program is described here. If you have not already done so or if needed, please go to this key page before reading further, which fully explains in detail with documentation why the global fossil fuel cartel is legally and financially responsible for your climate change damages and the climate change damages going on around the world.)
Overview
Over 2,000 lawsuits in at least 28 countries have been filed against global fossil fuel cartel members. These lawsuits currently involve hundreds of billions of dollars in loss and damage actions.
Over the next ten to fifteen years, it is estimated that the global fossil fuel cartel will eventually be forced to pay out trillions of dollars in loss and damage reparation payments to governments and in loss and damage judgments to private individuals and businesses in litigation worldwide.
Eventually, the total worldwide climate change loss and damage payouts from all fossil fuel cartel litigation will be exponentially larger than all of the billions of dollars paid in cigarette, asbestos, and opioid judgments.
This page contains:
1. Key reasons to sue the global fossil fuel cartel for all climate change consequence-related loss and damage.
2. An overview of the thousands of current lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel for climate change consequence-related loss and damage.
3. Links to a continually growing global master list of evidence that has or can be used in litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel. (Click here for the evidence page.)
3. Essential tips for starting your lawsuit against the global fossil fuel cartel for climate change-related loss and damage.
4. How to find the right lawyer or law firm.
5. A listing of law firms and government agencies already handling climate change cases against the fossil fuel cartel.
6. The many reasons why mid-sized law firms will want to work with you on your private lawsuit for climate justice and big payouts, national media attention, and great public relations for themselves and their firms.
7. What you should know before you bring your lawsuit against the cartel.
8. Tips for lawyers, solicitors, and law firms on acquiring existing anti-fossil fuel cartel evidence submitted in other court cases, as well as tips for bringing your cartel litigation legal team up to speed as fast as possible.
9. Listings of other organizations and resources to help you, your business, or your nation with your successful lawsuit against the global fossil fuel cartel.
10. This article is also relevant to the climate change reparations movement for those nations who have suffered the consequences of climate change and were not responsible for creating it.
11. How suing the global fossil fuel cartel members for your climate change loss and damage will also help to save humanity from mass extinction by helping to prevent humanity's crossing the last chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm (parts per million) tipping point.
(This page thoroughly explains the last chance for humanity that is lost when we cross the carbon 450 ppm tipping point.)
12. Information about how the Climate Justice Now program will also supercharge the global fossil fuel disinvestment movement. Every university endowment, pension fund, bank, or investment firm will divest of any fossil fuel assets and will want to quickly distance itself from anything to do with the growing public relations nightmare surrounding the global fossil fuel cartel's decades of horrendous crimes against humanity (as described in detail here).
13. Information about the worldwide climate change whistleblowers network and organization surfacing critical new witnesses.
14. If you are a US state Attorney General, a US municipal government, an equivalent legal authority in another nation, or a large law firm pursuing class action litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel, our organization is willing to provide special assistance to help get your litigation team up to speed.
If you know of any individual, business, state, or nation that has suffered any loss or damage due to the consequences of climate change, please get them this article and the Climate Justice Now program ASAP. They will be glad you did.
Introduction
This climate change loss, damage and disaster recovery and litigation page will direct you to the information and tools you will need to recover physically and financially from climate change-related extreme weather events or disasters involving property damage, investment loss, and death. (Here is a comprehensive master list of the primary and secondary climate change-related consequences.)
As you read all three parts of the Climate Justice Now program linked at the bottom of this page, you will discover for yourself that the actions and products of the global fossil fuel cartel have conclusively caused and continue to cause climate change and its many consequences.
This page will help you bring criminal charges against the perpetrators of climate change-related damages and losses where warranted. This page also has a growing list of worldwide law firms that will help ensure you get climate justice and are made financially whole from the climate change loss and damage caused directly and indirectly by the products and actions of the global fossil fuel cartel.
Today, there are over 2,000 lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel and its oil, natural gas, and coal-producing members.
It is estimated that over the next ten years, there will be thousands more lawsuits, and the global fossil fuel cartel will be forced to pay trillions in private, state, and national climate loss and damage litigation claims. This surge of global litigation against the cartel is not unlike the surge of litigation that happened with the cigarette, asbestos, and opioid conglomerates.
Worldwide cartel litigation is focused on forcing the global fossil fuel cartel to pay for the climate change loss and damage caused by its toxic, polluting products and its decades of behind-the-scenes criminal actions to prevent state, national, or international laws that would:
1. mandate global fossil fuel reduction amounts and would
2. develop, forward, or subsidize green energy generation or replacement systems for fossil fuel product applications.
In this surge of worldwide cartel litigation, many different types of climate victims are suing the cartel:
a. home buyers (who were not accurately told how climate change could or would risk or damage their home purchase by real estate brokers or mortgage companies.)
b. farmers, farm cooperatives, and farmers’ associations. (Farmers are currently suffering massive financial losses from crop failures and low crop yields due to escalating climate change-related consequences. Climate change-driven extreme weather events are defined, in part, as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods, flooding, sea level rise, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal, unseasonal, or record-breaking weather related to rapidly accelerating climate change.)
c. business owners (who have suffered losses because of the many primary and secondary consequences of climate change.)
d. investors (who were not accurately told how escalating climate change could or would threaten or risk their investments.)
e. local governments and local agencies. (Local taxpayers are being forced to pay for cartel-caused climate change loss and damages that insurance company policies do not cover and they did not cause.)
f. state attorney generals and national government agencies. State and national taxpayers are getting stuck with the soaring costs of climate change consequences as more insurance companies cancel climate change-exposed insurance policies. (More state attorney generals and government agencies are filing litigation against the cartel to recover the financial losses for their taxpayers.)
g. undeveloped nations who also have experienced vastly disproportional climate change loss and damage in relation to the total fossil fuel pollution they have produced or put in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution about 1800 are now using the courts to recover their climate losses instead of continuing to beg and wait for the “too little too late” help they were promised at international climate conferences.
h. companies involved in green energy generation or green energy products. The fossil fuel cartel had extensive programs to stop or reduce green energy subsidies or stop or slow laws that would have made the global transition to green energy far easier and faster. Had it not been for the global fossil fuel cartel's anti-green energy actions, the world would be decades ahead in the green energy transition, and our current climate change consequences would be far less. (See this online trial for more information.)
Individuals, businesses, and government agencies are convicting the cartel, its executives, or enabling companies and individuals on one or more of the following criminal and civil legal charges.
Those civil and criminal charges are areas are:
a. product liability (for loss and damage caused by the cartel's toxic polluting products.)
b. violations of consumer protection laws (for loss and damages caused by a cartel's products or actions.)
c. Aiding and abetting the cartel's toxic pollution or other criminal activities. It's not just the cartel manufacturers of these deadly and destructive fossil fuel products being held liable anymore. A new precedent-setting case for widening the zone of cartel legal liability has just occurred. In the recent multi-billion dollar US opioid cases, it was not just Purdue Pharmaceutical, the manufacturer of the opioids, that was held liable. Big-name distributors of Perdue's opioid products, like Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS drugstores, were also held liable for damages.
Additionally, McKinsey & Company in the US was forced to pay 78 million dollars for its role in promoting the deadly opioid epidemic in the US. They were convicted of supplying deceptive marketing plans to boost the sales of Perdue's dangerous product. McKinsey & Company's deceptive marketing actions mirror the cartel's decades-long global climate change disinformation campaigns.
(McKinsey & Company intentionally supplied disinformation to the public and others about the dangers of the Purdue Pharmaceutical-produced opioids. This 78 million dollar judgment opens the door to hold cartel lobbyists, PR firms, marketing firms, and funding banks or individuals legally responsible for cartel climate change loss and damage for their co-conspiratorial aiding and abetting roles. Many firms were involved in creating, promoting, enabling, facilitating, or financing the cartel's climate change disinformation, deceptive marketing, or the cartel's other coercive and illegal actions, which prevented society and its politicians from enacting the required fossil fuel reductions decades ago and accelerating the transition to a green energy economy. Worse yet, the cartel and its enablers have worked tirelessly to stop those who could have prevented the current and past harms of climate change consequences.
d. False advertising and false marketing.
e. negligence and gross negligence resulting in death, bodily harm, or destruction and loss because of the cartel's toxic, polluting products or the negligent or grossly negligent actions of a cartel or cartel agents.
f. racketeering, possibly even the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in the US (These charges and a conviction on this charge can and should be brought because of the decades of conspiratorial cartel disinformation and the cartel's long-term pattern of hidden coercive actions to unduly influence and prevent effective global fossil fuel reduction laws which would threaten their profits. For decades, the cartel has also actively blocked laws and subsidies that could have improved or accelerated the global transition to green energy generation and green energy applications.
g. first-degree murder (millions of deaths have been caused annually by the cartel's toxic, polluting products and their coercive global actions to prevent fossil fuel regulation. For decades, the cartel conclusively knew its products would kill millions and yet continued to sell them and hide their dangerous health and other side effects, like global warming.)
h. crimes against humanity because of the carefully orchestrated decades of crimes against humanity and humanity's future well-being, the international 28 trillion dollars a year cartel should be treated as a rogue nation and also face crimes against humanity charges. In addition to national trials, it also should be tried in the International Criminal Court and other national courts.)
The cartel has already killed an estimated 300 million people since the 1800s from its toxic and deadly polluting fossil fuel products. Escalating climate change today is causing worldwide mass migrations and resulting in the deaths of millions more annually (mostly poor and disadvantaged people.)
If allowed to continue unchecked, the cartel's total toxic product pollution and all of the primary and secondary climate change consequences of that toxic pollution will directly or indirectly kill about half of humanity by about 2050. (Click here to learn why such a massive climate change-driven human die-off is now all but unavoidable by 2050.)
i. Ecocide, if local law permits.
More on why you will want to successfully sue the global fossil fuel cartel members
There are several critical reasons to begin your lawsuit against the global fossil fuel cartel and its members and executives:
1. Their products and actions have legitimately harmed you.
Be sure you have read this page, which details ALL of the continuous and vile actions of the global fossil fuel cartel, which have caused horrendous climate change consequences worldwide. (This page of cartel crimes and toxic pollution is written as an online public trial of the cartel.)
For 50+ years, the global fossil fuel cartel has known from its internal documents and scientist-created reports that its products will cause many forms of massive climate change loss and damage. For 50+ years, the global fossil fuel cartel has done everything and its power to prevent you from understanding how bad climate change loss and damage will be, how soon they will be occurring, and what the correct solutions are. They also have continuously prevented our governments from legislating the actual and required reductions in global fossil fuel use.
Because of these actions, the global fossil fuel cartel is fully responsible for the climate change-related loss and damage that you have experienced. Today, this information is widely known and proven. Today, more law firms worldwide are taking on new lawsuits for the victims of climate change and winning.
2. With every lawsuit filed, the fossil fuel industry has less profit and ability to continue to pollute our atmosphere and environment with its deadly toxic poisons.
Your lawsuit will directly help to save more people's lives, resources, and more of the environment, and its animal species will be protected as well. Suing the global fossil fuel cartel may become the most successful means of reducing global fossil fuel use ever.
It is time for a new, nonviolent, legal strategy to stop the cartel based on a simple principle that has worked unbelievably well for centuries.
Take the perpetrator(s) to court and remove all profits from continuing the wrongdoing. Removing the perpetrator's ill-gotten gains will also destroy their ability to continue their harmful and deadly acts upon humanity.
3. To date, no climate change treaty, no international climate change conference (like the United Nations COP conferences), and not even decades of massive global climate change street protests have slowed or stopped climate change and global warming from worsening at even faster rates!
The danger is so great that it is time to bypass misinformed, cowardly, or compromised politicians and governments and act directly to remove all profit from the wrongdoing of killing millions of people and destroying the future of humanity.
The way we bypass misinformed, cowardly, or compromised politicians and governments is to enact the Climate Justice NOW program. This new program is critical because:
1. It exposes the actual perpetrators of climate change and facts the perpetrators never want anyone to know.
2. It allows the victims of climate change consequences to get restitution and justice from the perpetrators of climate change.
3. It takes all the profit out of the climate change perpetrator's wrongful actions and diminishes the perpetrator's resources and ability to continue such wrongful actions upon all humanity and biological life.
4. No climate change treaty, no international climate change conference (the United Nation's COP conferences), and not even the decades of massive climate change street protests worldwide have not stopped or even slowed climate change from worsening at even faster rates! If we do not find a better way to actually reduce global fossil fuel use, about half of humanity will perish by about 2050.
There is no doubt amount the climate change informed that our politicians and governments have utterly failed to control escalating climate change. The best proof of their complete failure is the rising amounts of carbon (C02) and methane (CH4) in our atmosphere.
Here is the simple proof that we are not making ANY climate change reduction progress, which the global fossil fuel cartel never wants you to see.
Atmospheric carbon and methane levels ARE the most valid and best objective measurements that show if our politicians, governments, and environmental groups are making honest progress on fixing climate change. From this atmospheric carbon graph just above and the methane graph further down this page, it becomes painfully evident that anyone who is telling you that we are making real or meaningful progress on fixing climate change and preventing escalating climate change catastrophe after catastrophe, either:
1. does not know how to read an atmospheric carbon or methane graph (both of which are getting worse at faster rates) or
2. does not understand the complex climate change science, mathematics, and physics, or
3. has financial interests in keeping the global public ignorant of climate change's current real danger and risk level. (Click here to see humanity's real climate change risk level.) or
4. Is lying through their teeth.
The graph below shows the painful story of the three major fossil fuel-burning atmospheric greenhouse gases: carbon (CO2), methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). The numbers at the bottom of the illustration below are the AD dates in history. The IPCC is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. AR6 is the IPCC's climate summary report. NOAA is the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. PPB is parts per billion. PPM is parts per million.
Please notice how fast greenhouse gases have risen in the gray vertical rectangles on the right. Also, at around 1800 AD, greenhouse gases increase far beyond any earlier levels. About 1800 AD was the beginning of the fossil fuel-burning industrial revolution. Particularly, notice how, from about 1950 to 1980, the rates of toxic and poisonous greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere began rising exponentially.
After looking at the above two best fossil fuel reduction progress graphs that show the result of everything humanity has done to try to reduce global fossil fuel use over the last 4-6 decades, only someone in complete denial or is delusional would say we are making and fossil fuel reduction progress, or that what we are currently doing to reduce fossil fuel use is working at all!
Our accelerating global heating and extinction threat is now so great that we have no other choice but to bypass the disinformed, compromised, or cowardly politicians and governments. We must now act directly using the three parts of the Climate Justice Now program.
This new program will help eventually remove all global profit from the climate change perpetrator's acts, which are killing millions of people and destroying the future of humanity.
4. If you are still unsure of why or how you can, or if you really want to sue the global fossil fuel cartel and its members successfully, we strongly recommend that you read this page on what the global fossil fuel cartel has done to harm you, your business, your nation, and many, many others and our world.
When you read how and why you want to sue the fossil fuel cartel, you also get to be a reader/jury member at the cartel trial found on this page. At the end of this page, you will be asked to vote on the cartel's guilt using an online survey form. If you read this page on what the global fossil fuel cartel has done to harm you and others, we strongly doubt that you will let the fossil fuel cartel get away with not paying you restitution for the harm that you have suffered.
5. Please do not forget that with every new lawsuit filed (and its subsequent media coverage), you will also be supercharging the global fossil fuel disinvestment movement.
Your lawsuit will help motivate every university endowment, pension fund, bank, or investment firm to divest of any fossil fuel assets and quickly distance themselves from anything to do with a growing public relations nightmare surrounding growing disclosures about the global fossil fuel cartel's decades of horrendous crimes against humanity (as described in detail here). Divestment also takes away the cartel's resources to keep harming others.
6. You will also be helping the world's poorer nations recover their fossil fuel cartel-caused climate change loss and damages. New lawsuits against the cartel by nations also help those nations get paid for the loss and damages their nation has experienced because of fossil fuel cartel products and actions. Fossil fuel nations who have experienced significant climate change loss and damage should not be begging other more developed nations who produced more fossil fuel pollution for their climate change loss and damage restitution payments. If they want to be successful fast, they should be demanding these payments from the global fossil fuel cartel through vigorous and aggressive litigation.
The number of worldwide lawsuits for climate change loss and damage against the global fossil fuel cartel is growing fast
The number of cases focused on global climate change victim damage and the climate change emergency has doubled since 2015, bringing the total number to over 2,000, according to a report last year led by European researchers. More than 28 countries are now suing the global fossil fuel cartel for climate change loss and damage.
More than two dozen US cities and states are suing big oil, alleging the fossil fuel industry knew for decades about the dangers of burning coal, oil, and gas and actively hid that information from consumers and investors.
Since 2017, seven states, 35 municipalities, the District of Columbia, and one industry trade association have sued major fossil fuel corporations and lobbying groups on these grounds. Scores of new cases against the cartel based on its 50 years of disinformation and regulation-preventing practices are based on some combination of four different legal theories: tort law, product liability, consumer protection – and, most recently, racketeering.
Private law firms and governments alike worldwide now see the potential for trillions of dollars in winning eventual jury awards against the world's largest and wealthiest corporate entity, the global fossil fuel cartel. They also see that there is now greater access to current and former employees willing to testify against their employers to limit their own liability or be good citizens.
It is not just the cartel companies and executives with deep, cash-rich pockets. Many other cartel enablers and facilitators at lobbying firms, PR firms, pension funds, investment firms, etc., all have had a hand in the chain of climate loss and damage created. Their deep pockets will also contribute to increasing the ongoing restitution judgments.
Many mid-sized law firms who have never represented global fossil fuel cartel-related companies see getting involved in new lawsuits against the cartel as a quick opportunity to become large law firms.
Additionally, savvy law firms will get other companies to join the new lawsuits directly or in Amicus Curiae (friends of the court) briefs. Firms like insurance companies, mortgage companies, solar and wind companies, and a host of other companies who do not want to get stuck with paying for climate loss and damage themselves or who have also been harmed by 40 years of cartel disinformation and regulation-thwarting actions could contribute valuable staffing and evidence to ongoing litigation. (Click here for a recent article on insurance and mortgage companies not wanting to get stuck paying for cartel-caused climate loss and damage.)
Legally, it is a terrible time for fossil fuel cartel companies and their senior executives, and it will get much worse!
To help you get started, make the selection below that is most relevant to your most immediate need:
1. Please see step one below if you are still in physical danger from a recent climate change, extreme weather event, or disaster.
2. If you have just experienced a climate change-related extreme weather event involving any heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather and, you need to begin the process for financial recovery and restitution continue to read this page.
3. For a list of worldwide law firms that may be able to take on climate change cases to assist the victims of climate change, go to the bottom of Step 2 on this page.
4. If you are looking for the essential emergency backup plans and actions needed to ride out future climate-related extreme weather and other climate change-related disasters, please click here.
5. If you need information on the best actions for adaptations for the next wave of worsening climate change consequences, please go to this page.
6. If you want our extensive climate change migration evaluation and potential relocation information, please click here.
7. If you are interested in being involved in a supportive community teaching climate change resilience and helping communities worldwide become more climate change resilient, click here.
Please be sure to share this page with everyone you know who has also suffered direct or indirect climate change loss and damage. It will help them, and it will help stop the perpetrators of climate change from profiting from the pain, suffering, and death of millions of people.
How to get started with your legal action against the global fossil fuel cartel
If you have suffered any climate change-related (extreme weather-related) damage or destruction to your home or business caused by heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather, you have our deepest sympathy.
Please use the following instructions to prevent any additional climate-related suffering and loss and to help recover financially from the climate change-related loss and damage you have unjustly experienced, mainly because of the criminal actions of others.
This climate change recovery assistance document is divided into several main sections. The purpose of each part is to help you to:
a. Understand the true cause of your losses and what you did not cause. (This critical must-read first page will help you understand the real cause of your climate change losses.)
b. Recover financially from ALL loss and damage you have suffered as quickly as possible by using several different legal approaches and links to law firms specializing in assisting climate change victims. (See bottom of section 2.)
c. Prevent this level and kind of painful loss, damage, and suffering from ever happening to you again, especially as global warming continues to escalate.
Never forget the global fossil fuel cartel is the wealthiest single corporate structure in the world, with over 28 trillion dollars a year in revenue. Depending upon your case's circumstances, your attorneys will not only be able to sue the cartel but also the "deep pockets" of cartel-related corporations that aided or facilitated climate change disinformation and damages. Those firms include hedge funds, investment banking firms, pension plans, insurance companies, and even government agencies who failed to accurately inform you of pending climate change consequence risks, and in some cases, their abject failure to manage those risks as their ordinary due diligence would require.
Step 1: If you are still in any current physical danger or need from the climate-related extreme weather or disaster, immediately call or contact your local emergency services for help.
This climate change disaster recovery assistance document assumes you have already searched out and been in contact with your local, regional, or national governmental emergency responders and local non-profit emergency support organizations to ask for the various support and assistance to which you are legally entitled and which those organizations are legally or ethically required to provide to you in times of emergency. Contacting these organizations immediately after a global warming-aggravated disaster will ensure you get the immediate post-crisis temporary physical support you will need.
Once you receive this temporary physical support, you will be ready to seek additional compensation and restitution for the aggravated climate change-caused loss and damage you did not cause! The following sections will take you through the actions you must follow so that those truly responsible for your loss and damage pay for the suffering they have created in your life, family, or business.
Step 2: Get financial restitution for what has happened to you because of the greed-driven, intentional, and malicious acts of the global fossil fuel cartel. File your lawsuit NOW!
If you have not done so already, read this page first. It is essential to get you your financial restitution for what happened. It will help you understand who did this to you, how, and why, and then return to the page below.
As you will discover, it is near certain that the climate change-aggravated loss and damage you have suffered are directly or indirectly due to the intentional acts, negligence, or gross negligence of fossil fuel cartel companies, insurance companies, mortgage companies, or even government agencies that have knowingly either created global warming or have withheld vital climate change risk information from you and the public relating to the currently known or coming consequences of climate change for your local, state or national area. Current litigation against the cartel or the other companies who failed to inform you of known climate change risks, or engaged in active climate change disinformation, or actively prevented our governments from fixing climate change is based on some combination of four different legal theories: tort law, product liability, consumer protection – and, most recently, racketeering.
It is probable that by bringing lawsuits individually or by bringing class action lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, various government agencies, and the other types of companies or fossil fuel pollution corporations described above, you will be able to collect all or part of the greatest part of the costs and damages that you have suffered.
How to Find the right lawyer or law firm?
Many lawyers and major law firms are already keenly aware of the deep financial pockets of the fossil fuel industry, insurance companies, mortgage companies, investment firms, real estate companies, and government or city or state agencies.
To help you find the right legal representation, further down this page, we have provided lists of law firms and climate change litigation-support groups that are working to help victims collect climate change loss and damages from the global fossil fuel cartel. You can also find local legal representation by calling your state or national lawyers or solicitors association and asking them for a list of local attorneys or solicitors specializing in environmental or product liability lawsuits.
As a general rule of thumb, try to get the larger law firms to take your case. This principle is because larger law firms have the financial resources to go against wealthy corporations and are often more aware of the successes or difficulties of similar lawsuits worldwide. This wealth enables them to quickly adjust their legal strategies and evidence on-the-fly for maximum success. Larger law firms are also more likely to monitor new lawsuit filings from other city, county, and state governments who are also filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies for the climate change-aggravated loss and damage that they have caused in other areas.
When searching for a lawyer or law firm, we strongly recommend only going with firms that will take your case on contingency. Contingency means you do not have to pay for any legal costs unless they win the case. If they win, they take a fixed pre-agreed percentage of the final judgment, and you get the balance.
Do not hire any attorney or law firm who either cites a high upfront cost to take your case, doesn't believe in the merits of your case, or doesn't understand climate change-aggravated or caused loss and damage. Avoid any attorney or firm strongly unsure of their ability to win your case and those who feel they are too small and under-resourced to go up against big fossil fuel companies, insurance companies, real estate companies, mortgage companies, or governmental or city or state agencies.
It may take a while to find the right law firm willing to take on your case or create a class action lawsuit for all individuals in your area who have also suffered similar loss and damage. Be patient and persistent. When you find the right lawyer or law firm, your lawsuit will likely pay off for you and society.
Now that you understand more about the causes, perpetrators, and history of escalating climate change, you are ready to search for the right law firm to help you bring your lawsuit(s) against the following potential parties:
a. the global fossil fuel cartel, which caused this global warming problem.
b. any individual real estate, insurance, mortgage, or investment company who also failed to execute their ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to fully disclose and inform you that your property or investment was in an unsafe high-risk climate change and global warming risk area at the time of purchase or when they insure, reinsured or sold it to you. And, as a last resort,
c. any relevant government agencies who should have protected you with the proper advanced information about your local global warming-related risks. This can mean city, county, state, or national governments, especially local zoning and planning departments (who had a due diligence obligation to know the true climate change risks of your area.)
They all had the ethical and legal responsibility to update their zoning maps and regulations to create accurate assessments of all climate change high-risk danger zones due to the many long-known consequences of climate change. They also had the ethical and legal responsibility to inform you that you were in a high-risk area by requiring real estate, insurance, and mortgage companies operating within their jurisdictions to also fully disclose to you these high-risk danger zones at the time of your property purchase when you received your mortgage, when you purchased your home or mortgage insurance or when you sought a permit to remodel.
Many cities in California and New York (see articles further below) are currently filing lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry in the state (not federal) courts only for the damages to their cities that climate change has already caused, such as flooding from sea level rise and the extreme storms and storm surges aggravated by climate change. (Federal courts are temporarily more challenging to bring these kinds of lawsuits.
Never forget that every time the fossil fuel industry is penalized financially for its wrongdoing, it becomes less profitable for it to continue to cause global climate change loss and damage for everyone. Until all profit is removed from such wrongdoing, it will continue, and more people will continue to be harmed.
Remember that you may receive financial restitution much sooner than expected. In many cases, the organizations being sued would rather agree to an out-of-court settlement instead of going to court, where a jury may award a much larger damage judgment and even add punitive damages far above what you ask for.
When you find the right law firm, remember you are in it for the long haul to get restitution and justice! These fossil fuel companies have been profiting at extreme levels for many decades on the pain, suffering, and harm to the health and lives of others. They have known for decades that their products would cause every one of the 20 worst global warming consequences.
Maintain the attitude that because of their intentional acts, negligence, lack of due diligence, and other crimes, these organizations will inevitably pay for all the loss and damage they have done to you and everyone else they have damaged and harmed.
If you're also bringing a lawsuit against various government agencies, they, too, must be held responsible for failing to properly inform the public of all known consequences and risks that would affect you and the safety or future value of your property. Unfortunately, in some countries, climate change's real risks and consequences have been intentionally hidden from the public because of lavish cash campaign "donations" by the fossil fuel cartel and its lobbyists. These "donations" have acted to influence your politicians unduly and improperly. That alone may become additional evidence and grounds for further proof of intentionality against the fossil fuel cartel companies in a carefully crafted lawsuit.
It bears repeating that wherever possible, bring lawsuits against government agencies, real estate agents, mortgage companies, investment firms, zoning departments, and insurance companies that failed to adequately inform you of climate change threats to your home or business location. Most of these other organizations have "deep pockets" and have also known for decades or should have long known (if they were doing the proper level of legal due diligence) about the real risks and consequences of climate change and global warming. Yet, they still failed to disclose those risks when you purchased your home, business, or related policies.
Because of their failures to properly inform you of the actual climate change risks in your area, they also carry responsibility for the avoidable damage and suffering you have experienced. As a general policy and wherever allowable, your lawyers and law firms should always include these organizations in your lawsuit.
(Click here to learn more about the widely known and grossly underestimated climate change risks, consequences, timetables, and solutions widely used by companies and governments, which demonstrate their gross negligence or lack of proper due diligence when you were given climate change risk-related information. Even a cursory online search would have disclosed that the climate data they used for their climate risk disclosures was widely challenged by credible sources and deeply flawed.)
There's other good news when you find the right law firm. They do ALL the work and research necessary to win the case. It will not take up much of your valuable recovery time other than finding the right law firm.
At most, you may be called to testify if it goes to trial. This law firm-driven restitution process means you can move on with rebuilding your life while your law firm pushes the lawsuit forward and the subsequent judgment collection in the background.
Also, do not forget that increasing litigation against the cartel will also have a powerful side effect in that it will also benefit all future litigation against the cartel for climate change loss and damage. Once senior executives in the cartel member companies or cartel lobbying firms, public relations firms, or marketing firms realize that they personally and their firms can also be held criminally and financially liable for cartel actions and conspiracies, they quickly will begin turning into whistleblowers and witnesses. Not because they have had a real change of heart or have developed genuine empathy for the victims of their greed, but because they want to quickly trade their testimony for criminal immunity (or protection where needed,) and they want to swiftly distance their firms from the cartel's growing public relations and litigation nightmare. This means there will be a growing pool of willing former cartel witnesses to help your lawyers with your case.
Finally, always be sure that your attorney, solicitor, law firm, or appropriate government agency staff read ALL of the Climate Justice Now (which are linked at the bottom of this page) to get up to speed as quickly as possible about the best strategies and connections for bringing or advancing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel and its members.
A tsunami of new lawsuits will soon be filed against the cartel. If you have suffered climate change loss and damage, get your suit filed as quickly as possible so you will have priority in collecting your judgment.
A quick snapshot of ongoing worldwide climate change litigation news
- Why Climate change lawsuits are surging. By the BBC
- Over the last 12 months, further legal cases have been brought against fossil fuel companies, especially outside the United States.
- Five areas to watch in the coming year are cases involving personal responsibility; cases challenging commitments that over-rely on greenhouse gas removals or ‘negative emissions’ technologies; cases focused on short-lived climate pollutants; cases explicitly concerned with the climate and biodiversity nexus; and strategies exploring legal recourse for the ‘loss and damage’ resulting from climate change.
- Recent litigation has commonalities with the need to increase ambition and action from countries and phase down the use of all fossil fuels across the energy sector.
- The number of climate litigation cases with strategic ambition (i.e. to bring about a broader societal shift) continues to rise.
- Around one-quarter of the 2,000 lawsuits filed were filed between 2020 and 2022.
- Climate litigation has become an instrument used to enforce or enhance climate commitments made by governments, with 73 ‘framework’ cases challenging governments’ overall responses to climate change.
- This 11.3.23 update comes from the Desmog website. ("Honolulu first sued 10 fossil fuel companies — including BP, Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Aloha Petroleum — in March 2020, in an attempt to hold these companies accountable for alleged deception over the climate risks of their products. Though the defendants have attempted to get the case thrown out, the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. This will be the first [climate liability] case to go to a jury,” Patrick Parenteau, emeritus professor of law and senior fellow for climate policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School, told DeSmog. He called the ruling a “breakthrough.”).
- Another brand new precedent case for widening the zone of legal liability has just occurred. McKinsey & Company in the US was forced to pay 78 million dollars for its role in promoting the deadly opioid epidemic in the US. They were convicted of supplying deceptive marketing plans to boost the sales of this dangerous product. Not unlike the cartel, they supplied disinformation to the public and others about the dangers of opioids. This now means that all lobbyists, PR firms, investment banks, and bankers are also legally responsible for cartel climate change loss and damage for their role in creating, promoting, or financing climate change disinformation or other activities, which prevented society and its politicians from enacting the required fossil fuel reductions starting six decades ago which could have prevented the harms caused to its victims.
- A growing number of senior former fossil fuel executives and even some current fossil fuel executives are having second thoughts about what they did and what they ordered. They are looking to offer documents and testimony supporting fossil fuel liability cases. They are not doing this entirely because they feel ashamed. They are also doing it to avoid personal liability. If you are in this category or know someone in it, do not send them to Job One. Send them directly to the attorney general or chief prosecuting attorney for your local or national government, and send them to attorneys handling class action or large lawsuits against the cartel.
- Here is a 2022 quick summary of climate change litigation.
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Kids Sued Montana over Climate Change and Won. Click here for details.
- More to come soon as we are notified.
The tide is definitely turning against the global fossil fuel cartel in regard to lawsuits involving climate change loss and damage. See the following links:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042023/supreme-court-fossil-fuel-climate-change-lawsuits/
To help you prepare for what you will experience in your lawsuit and at court
Here is how the cartel's prominent law firms will react to you filing a lawsuit against them. Please read this before contacting a law firm.
It is essential to be realistic about what will happen after you file your lawsuit against one or more members of the global fossil fuel cartel. You will need to be patient, trust your law firm, and develop a thick skin for riding out the many ups and downs that you will experience during the process of your litigation.
Ultimately, your lawsuit against the cartel, when and if successful, will likely have more societal and financial corrective effects in stopping the cartel's decades of criminal behavior than many climate activist actions going on currently or in the past.
However, once you file your lawsuit, you and your legal team should expect the following.
1. Like the cigarette corporation or asbestos or opioid company litigation, the cartel's law firms will attempt to bury your legal team in document requests, motions, and appeals for almost anything they can legally do to dissuade or delay you and your team and to push you toward an out-of-court confidential settlement. They will constantly threaten you that they will drag you through years of expensive litigation and even more years of appeal after appeal, eventually to the highest court in your country.
Remember, global cigarette and asbestos companies eventually paid many billions of dollars in judgments and settlements. All their threats, delays, and posturing did nothing to prevent their eventual paying for their toxic products and actions. The global fossil fuel cartel has many thousand times more assets than the global cigarette and asbestos companies combined. Those aggressively pursuing litigation against the cartel for climate change loss and damage from its toxic products and actions will be richly rewarded in many ways.
Hopefully, your mid-sized law firm will quickly gather the charges, motions, and evidence lists from previous similar cartel litigation. Your wise law firm will be able to borrow much of the necessary motion replies and evidence submissions from the well-done successful work in other civil, criminal court, and government agency cases, saving themselves much time and expense.
It also would help if you remember that time is now working primarily against the cartel, unlike in previous cigarette company litigation. The longer the cartel tries to delay and extend your and other legal actions, the greater the demand will grow from the outside general public for swift and strong climate change justice. This change in the time advantages in litigation will occur because as more people are harmed worldwide by climate change consequences, more people will become aware of and upset with the actual source causing that climate change-related harm. There will be so many additional lawsuits being filed worldwide that the cartel's law firms will push even harder for quicker confidential settlements at greater rates.
Make no mistake about this eventual settle the small cases quickly survival strategy on the part of the cartel. They will not do this to be good corporate citizens. They will do this to focus their efforts on other more prominent and more extensive potential loss cases. They also will be doing this to try to figure out how to transfer their valuable assets out of their corporations without violating the state or national bankruptcy laws. Once again, there is terrible news for the cartel. Bankruptcy laws have been getting better and better at clawing back asset transfers after the fact made to defeat known pending legal actions, known judgments, and known legal liabilities.
Although each case and situation is different, we recommend that you do not accept a confidential settlement where the amount of money the fossil fuel cartel is paying you must be kept secret. The more others know about successful climate change litigation and successful payouts, the more people will sue to be made financially whole from the loss and damage caused by the global fossil fuel cartel. This litigation success knowledge will not only lead to more people being made financially whole due to climate change-related loss and damage, it will also eventually result in less fossil fuels being burned and in the atmosphere, which will give humanity a better and better chance of surviving this nightmare.
Hopefully, you will be able to hold your position against a confidential settlement so that it is not just you getting financial restitution; it is also you protecting the future of your children, grandchildren, and humanity.
2. The cartel's big law firms are currently very unsuccessfully trying to "blame the victims" for the loss and damage of climate change rather than their clients. They are trying to say that if you, I, and our businesses had conserved energy, there wouldn't be these climate change losses and damages.
The good news about this idiotic argument is that their lawyers are arguing a position that is ridiculously easy to defeat. For at least 40 years, the fossil fuel cartel, in dirty behind-the-scenes actions, has been doing everything it can to defeat government efforts to enforce and regulate conservation activities. If that was not enough, at the same time, for the last 40 years, the cartel has been doing everything it can to prevent the rapid scaling up and use of green energy generation systems and technologies.
The cartel has been doing these things because the last thing the cartel wants to do is make less money. Promoting conservation and the widespread use of green energy generation and green technology was not only the last thing the cartel wanted to happen; it actively worked to make sure it did not occur.
3. Your midsize law firm must continually present the jury with the facts that it has been a long-term legal practice and legal precedent that any corporation whose product poisons and kills or disables people in the surrounding area is liable for those damages. It does not matter if those products poisoned the surrounding population quickly, slowly, or even over decades with various cancers or other causes. It does not matter if the surrounding population was poisoned with one quick strike, as in the Bhopal toxic gas explosion in India, or slowly, like numerous towns around the world that have had to be abandoned because of industrial toxic pollution.
There have been thousands of successful cases holding corporations financially responsible for the adverse, fast, or slow, toxic effects of their products. Burning fossil fuels creates poisonous carbon chemical pollution of the atmosphere and other toxic chemical pollution. Toxic chemical and other toxic agent damage lawsuits have resulted in some of the largest financial judgments ever rendered.
Once you agree on a midsized law firm for your case, ask them to quickly collect all existing evidence exhibits from past or pending government agency cases against the cartel. These will be public records.
This way, the law firm does not have to "reinvent the wheel" or possibly re-verify evidence that has already been admitted into evidence and authenticated elsewhere. This collection of existing evidence from prior or pending big cases against the cartel will save time and money and get the firm up to speed very quickly.
Let one success build upon another wherever applicable. Always mention the benefits of this access to existing evidence when interviewing law firms and the rising tide of lawsuits against the cartel above.
4. You, your law firm, or your lead attorney must always consider bringing your large case, class action, or governmental lawsuit before the International Criminal Court. When the cartel loses at the International Criminal Court level, it will have a powerful political and public relations impact. It can strengthen your collection position and inspire others to do the same.
5. You must always consider that you may lose your case because of some circumstance(s) beyond your control. As the cartel loses more and more cases worldwide, it will try to buy politicians to get them to pass new laws to make it more difficult or impossible to sue the cartel for the loss and damage it's causing. But even this trusted old tactic will get more challenging to execute as more people worldwide suffer increasingly more severe climate change loss and damage as is happening now.
6. Litigation against the cartel will eventually turn into a race between harmed cities, states, nations, individuals, and businesses in individual or class action lawsuits regarding who will file the earliest and who will get the biggest judgments while the trillions of dollars in global fossil fuel cartel assets are still available or can be clawed back.
Competent Law firms and state attorney generals (and their international equivalents) know that they are in a race to file their actions and push them forward as fast as possible before the global fossil fuel cartel can coerce its many compromised worldwide politicians to try to pass new laws that would grant complete immunity to the cartel for all loss and damage from their toxic, polluting products and their decades of conspiratorial and racketeering criminal actions.
Unfortunately for the cartel, by the time any new cartel immunity laws are possible, there will be so many new lawsuits that cannot be granted immunity retroactively, and the public would be so much better informed; no politician who wants to stay in office would publicly vote for ridiculous new cartel immunity laws.
Brace yourself for a bumpy litigation road. If you are persistent and hold onto forwarding your case, you will most likely be rewarded in more ways than you can imagine. The legitimate seeking of necessary individual and social justice is ultimately transformational.
Tips for lawyers, solicitors, and law firms for bringing your anti-cartel litigation legal team up to speed.
1. Contact other attorneys and attorney generals with existing cases and request copies of useful submitted evidence.
2. Have your attorneys and legal research team read the following pages to get them up to speed quickly and to get them thinking about the many possible ways to frame and prosecute your cartel case in your location.
a. The online master trial of the cartel is found here.
b. The continually updated evidence page is found here.
3. Be sure to contact the whistleblowers organization below to see who is new and who might be available.
4. Always cooperate and share with other legal firms prosecuting the global fossil fuel cartel. You will be amazed at what you get and will not have to reinvent the wheel. Additionally, the social benefits of bringing the cartel's death machine to justice as quickly as possible also have a direct impact on you and your family's future.
5. It will not be long before many of the world's 193 countries that have suffered climate change loss and damages start their lawsuits against the cartel's obscene profits and huge assets. Undoubtedly, many individual states and local communities worldwide will also seek to file litigation for their loss and damage separately. No national, state, or local government that wants to remain solvent and popular will want to make its taxpayers pay for the ever-escalating climate change loss and damage done by the cartel's toxic, polluting products or criminal actions.
You are not alone! There are Hero and Heroine Climate Change Whistleblowers
There is now several worldwide Climate Change WhistleBlower support organizations helping to surface and protect old and new witnesses willing to speak to the media and in trial courts about the many past and ongoing crimes of the global fossil fuel cartel.
1. The Climate Whistleblowers are an NGO dedicated to the protection of climate whistleblowers. CW protects individuals who expose climate-related wrongdoing and ensures that their disclosures are impactful.
From a banker denouncing a fossil financing project to a government scientist being silenced, from an employee denouncing greenwashing practices to an engineer revealing mass deforestation, many can turn into climate whistleblowers. CW is the first organization to focus on climate whistleblowers, which will help protect people from climate crime and, more generally, foster sustainable development.
CW acts as a shield for these climate sentinels. Through their work as lawyers, journalists, and activists, experienced whistleblowers’ advocates behind CW have learnt to protect them and ensure their disclosures are impactful. It empowers climate whistleblowers through its legal, scientific, and human network. The whistleblowing policy is governed by whistleblowers protection acts.
For the Climate WhistleBlowers Website, click here.
Laura Paquemar is a Project officer at Climate Whistleblowers.
2. The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) was founded in 1988 by three experienced whistleblower attorneys – Stephen M. Kohn, Michael D. Kohn and David K. Colapinto – to educate the public about the plight of whistleblowers at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant.
The first high-impact case that NWC supported challenged an industry-wide practice of coercing employees to sign non-disclosure agreements prohibiting them from raising safety concerns to federal regulators. NWC garnered support in Congress, the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Department of Labor and before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) despite well-financed opposition in the nuclear industry and one of its prime construction contractors.
The precedents set were groundbreaking. All the “hush money” agreements, industry-wide, were voided. Years later, these precedents were relied on by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in its historic ruling banning restrictive non-disclosure agreements in corporate America.
NWC has remained dedicated to protecting all whistleblowers – regardless of industry, nationality, or type of wrongdoing. With the help of our hundreds of thousands of grassroots supporters, we have achieved successes like establishing National Whistleblower Day and adding key whistleblower protections into the Dodd-Frank Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, and numerous other federal laws.
For the National Whistleblower Center, click here.
You are not alone! Master list of law firms and support organizations handling climate change loss and damage cases
We are currently in the process of adding more law firms. If you know of a law firm anywhere in the world that is involved in litigation against companies or individuals in the global fossil fuel cartel to get restitution for climate change victims, please send us their name and contact information ASAP so we can add them to the list below.
Remember that lawsuits against cartel companies and key individuals will most likely do more to end climate change emergency and rising global warming faster than any of the previous actions activists have engaged in.
While only 2,000 cases are pending worldwide against fossil fuel companies and individuals as of 10.18.23, we estimate that because of new US and foreign rulings at higher than trial court levels, there will be about 8,000 cases by 2026 and 20,000 cases by 2030.
Always treat the lawyers, attorney generals, district attorneys, government or private solicitors, or government agency executives working on lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel for the climate change loss and damage it has caused as the new heroes of the climate change remedial movement. They are as much of a climate change hero or heroine as James Hanson, Al Gore, Bill Mckibben, or Greta Thunberg.
Many believe it will be these lawyers and government agency executives who will eventually bring the global fossil fuel cartel to its knees and be a deciding force in the battle to stop the climate change emergency.
Please remember that there are many bright and courageous law firms worldwide who would love to gain widespread positive publicity while helping their clients receive what will likely be the most significant damage and restitution payments in litigation history.
Current lawsuits against the fossil fuel cartel by cities, states, nations, or other relevant government agencies
Below are the private and government lawyer heroes and heroines aggressively pushing forward climate change justice and indirectly helping to end climate change.
Although we know of numerous other US state or international lawsuits that are being prepared for filing, we will not list them on this page until they have been physically filed with the courts. Government-level litigation against the cartel requires extensive evaluation of evidence, witnesses, and law before a lawsuit is filed.
Here is a quick look at some of the 2,000 + current lawsuits against the cartel:
- Currently, California attorney general Rob Bonta and the attorney general Letitia James for the state of New York in the U.S. are suing the fossil fuel cartel for billions in damages. California is suing the oil companies B.P., ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and ConocoPhillips and their trade group, the American Petroleum Institute. The law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann, and Bernstein are the named co-counsels in the California case. For more information on the lead California case, click here.
- Oregon's Multnomah County has sued fossil fuel companies for $50 billion, citing the 2021 heat wave. The law firms suing on their behalf of Multnomah County in Oregon are:
Thomas, Coon, Newton & Frost in Portland, Oregon
https://www.tcnf.legal
https://www.tcnf.legal/contact/
820 SW 2nd Ave, Suite 200 Portland OR 97204Simon Greenstone Panatier in Dallas
https://sgptrial.com
Worthington & Caron in San Pedro, California
(Contact the Oregon Multnomah County litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.) - The city of Oakland, California, joined the California lawsuit against five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. (Expect many more California cities to pile on and join the California lawsuit. Smart city managers know this is easy money with the California attorney general leading the prosecution. They know they're gonna get money either in the jury verdict or the pre-trial settlement. (Contact the Oakland California litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.) Also see, City of Oakland v. BP p.l.c. by clicking here.
- Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia are also suing the fossil fuel companies. (Here is the link to the Massachusetts climate change damages lawsuit against the cartel and its member Exxon. Contact the Attorney General for these other states, protectorates, or districts for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.)
- Hoboken, New Jersey, last month added racketeering charges against major oil companies to its 2020 climate lawsuit, becoming the first case to employ the approach in a state court and following a federal lawsuit filed by Puerto Rico last November. (Contact the Hoboken, New Jersey litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.) See this article, Lawsuit Filed by AG, NJDEP, and Division of Consumer Affairs Accuses Five Oil and Gas Companies of Misleading the Public About Their Products and Climate Change.
- More U.S. cities and states, including Baltimore, Maryland, and Honolulu, Hawaii, have recently filed similar complaints against oil companies. (Contact the Baltimore Maryland, and Honolulu, Hawaii litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.)
- Charleston sues fossil fuel companies over climate change. Charleston is the first city in the American South to file a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies for their contributions to climate change. Click here for article.
- Fossil Fuel case to be heard in Vermont court, click here. This new litigation comes after the Vermont Attorney General’s office sued Exxon and other companies for greenwashing fossil fuel products.
- For a full list of litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel in over 28 nations click here.
If you are a US state Attorney General, a US municipal government, or an equivalent legal authority in another nation pursuing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel, our organization will provide special assistance to help get your litigation team up to speed. Contact us at ([email protected])
If you know of other governments or government agencies in lawsuits against the cartel, please send us all the information you can about those legal actions (i.e., links, lawyer names, charges, etc.) We are working on creating the largest database of evidence, charges, and lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel so new lawyers, law firms, and government agencies do not have to reinvent the wheel and can get up to speed more quickly.
If you know of former fossil fuel cartel executives willing to testify against the cartel, please first forward that information to your correct local government legal agency so they can get immunity and or protection as necessary, and then send us a copy for a private list we are building for worldwide government agency-only. Once these whistleblowers have the correct immunities and protection, we will begin sharing those contacts with the largest class action lawsuits against the cartel.
Here are the current hero and heroine law firms and solicitors that can help you with your personal lawsuit
Please note: The world's largest law firms have most likely done legal work for the global fossil fuel cartel, and because of that, they are barred from bringing lawsuits against the cartel. This means you must find a mid-sized law firm for your case.
If you do not find a law firm below that will take your case while we are building this global law firm list, contact a local or state law firm that does class-action work or is at least mid-sized. Have someone at their firm read this page and our other two Climate Justice Now pages at this location and this second location, and they should quickly see the tremendous financial and public relations opportunity for their firm to do the right thing. It is also very possible that these law firms will gain national-level attention and prominence as they obtain huge settlements or judgments for their clients and themselves.
Similar to what happened with the massive and sudden cigarette and asbestos judgments and settlements, more mid-sized law firms are rapidly recognizing their firms' positive reputation, national media exposure, and huge income growth potential in bringing justice and legal actions against the deep-pocketed global fossil fuel cartel companies and executives.
Please do not forget that the following lawyer heroes and heroines are also aggressively pushing forward climate change justice and indirectly helping to end climate change. Lawyers and solicitors may now be our last best hope to enforce the reduction of global fossil fuel usage enough so that some of humanity survives the climate change emergency.
Please inform us of any new law firms handling anti-cartel climate change loss and damage lawsuits at ([email protected]).
Although we know of numerous other law firms that are prepared to file lawsuits against the cartel, we will not list them on this page until they have been physically filed with the courts. Successful litigation against the cartel requires extensive evaluation of evidence, witnesses, and law before a lawsuit is filed.
Here are the law firms currently involved in litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel:
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann, and Bernstein
(Also co-counsels in the California attorney general's case against fossil fuel cartel members)
Anderson Kill
Website: https://www.andersonkill.com/Practice-Areas/Climate-Change-and-Disaster-Recovery
Offices
New York - 212-278-1000
Boston - (617) 221-5445
Denver - 303-353-0066
Los Angeles - 213-943-1444
Newark - 973-642-5858
Philadelphia - 267-216-2700
Stamford - 203-388-7950
Washington, DC - 202-416-6500
The Climate Protection and Restorative Initiative
https://cprclimate.org
2495 Hilyard St., Suite A
Eugene, Oregon 97405, USA
Our Children's Trust Law firm
https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org
PO BOX 5181 EUGENE, OR 97405
Our Children's Trust is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit law firm registered in the United States.
Tax ID: 27-3094382
Our Children’s Trust currently represents and supports young people in pending climate cases and legal actions in the five states listed below.
For information on legal actions we’ve led in all 50 states, please click here.
Thomas, Coon, Newton & Frost in Portland, Oregon
https://www.tcnf.legal
https://www.tcnf.legal/contact/
Simon Greenstone Panatier
https://sgptrial.com
https://sgptrial.com
Worthington & Caron in San Pedro, California
Over 1,300 lawyers across 18 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe
919 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
United States of America
- +1 212.593.5955 Fax
If you are a large law firm pursuing litigation or a class action lawsuit against the global fossil fuel cartel, our organization will provide special assistance to help get your litigation team up to speed. Contact us at ([email protected])
If you know of any law firms or cases against the global fossil fuel cartel for restitution for climate change loss and damage that are not on our current lists, PLEASE send us the names of those law firms and court cases so we can add them to the lists below. By doing so, you will be helping and encouraging others to get justice and restitution for the climate change loss and damage they have suffered but did not cause. You also will be doing much to reduce global warming by helping others take all profits out of poisoning our atmosphere with toxic fossil fuel pollution.
Organizations and their hero and heroine staff tracking new lawsuits against the fossil fuel cartel in the US and Worldwide
Non-law firms heroes and heroines supportive of climate change legal accountability against the cartel toxic polluters.
Please do not forget that the following organization(s) and their staff heroes and heroines are also aggressively pushing forward climate change justice and indirectly helping to end climate change.
Corey Riday-White,
managing attorney
5614 Connecticut Ave. NW, #314
Washington, DC 20015
Available climate change litigation educational classes
To reach the goal of 10,000 total lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel within the next five years, we will also need organizations like those below to help teach individuals and lawyers the latest information on the most successful legal actions against the global fossil fuel cartel. Please do not forget that the following organization(s) and their staff heroes and heroines are also aggressively pushing forward climate change justice and indirectly helping to end climate change.
Here is the information on available climate change litigation educational classes:
Climate change litigation is becoming an increasingly critical component of climate governance at the local, national, regional, and global levels, exerting pressure on government executive and legislative branches to act on climate change issues. At the same time, climate change-related cases have also been filed against private actors, mostly fossil fuel and cement companies, which are major greenhouse gas emitters. Young people, NGOs, and others have taken to the courts to challenge governments' and corporations' actions or inactions.
This course is based around the most compelling practical issues and relevant sectors while combining the scientific and legal frameworks and obstacles through which climate change litigation takes place. Finally, climate change litigation will be analyzed as a global phenomenon, taking stock of landmark examples at the international and domestic levels, wherever they appear.
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Be cognizant of the role of climate litigation in pursuing climate action
- Have a clear understanding of the principal issues, dynamics, and obstacles of climate change litigation, both from a domestic (comparative) and international perspective;
- Be better able to critically understand and assess the legal tools and principles related to climate change litigation;
- Be able to identify critical domestic, comparative, and international climate-related cases and opportunities for climate action.
This course offers a comprehensive overview of climate change law and the legal responses to the current climate crisis. Bringing together a distinguished cohort of scholars and practitioners, the course is designed to provide participants with a working knowledge of the relevant legal frameworks as well as to enhance their understanding of the way climate change impacts other areas of international law, including territory, human rights, trade, and investment.
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Have a clear understanding of the principal elements of International and Comparative Climate Change Law;
- Have a comprehension of the complex (scientific, economic, political and legal) framework of climate change issues;
- Better understand the international regime and the global governance of climate change, including as it relates to other areas of international law;
- Be able to critically assess the legal tools and principles related to climate change;
- Be able to analyse the principal challenges relating to the implementation and compliance of climate change law;
- Be able to identify national and international initiatives and opportunities for climate change action.
As to the prices, the courses each cost GBP 775 inclusive of VAT (if applicable).
People can register at the relevant course pages:
- For climate change law: https://www.biicl.org/events/11682/short-course-climate-change-law-hybrid
- For climate change litigation: https://www.biicl.org/events/11678/short-course-climate-change-litigation
Job One for Humanity is also actively involved in promoting new global fossil fuel cartel litigation worldwide to make them pay for the loss and damage their products produce and their crimes
1. We are actively contacting, either directly or through volunteers, embassies, and the justice departments of local, state, and national governments, informing them of why they, too, should be suing the cartel and how to do so successfully.
We have especially reached out to underdeveloped nations who have been disproportionately harmed by the effects of climate change, which they did not cause. We are working with them to realize it is time to stop going to the United Natioins's International COP conferences begging for scraps of financial assistance when they could begin effective lawsuits against cartel members and extract and enforce the financial restitution and climate justice needed to make their nations whole again.
2. In the background, we are accumulating filed evidence exhibits and judgments against the cartel to be used in other cases worldwide.
3. We are actively recruiting new volunteers worldwide to work specifically on promoting the Climate Justice Now program and its actions. Click here to become a volunteer in the Climate Justice Now program and help forward the justice actions described on this page and throughout the Climate Justice Now pages.
4. We are deeply grateful for the interest, support, and cooperation from individuals and attorneys currently involved in the cartel's climate change loss and damage lawsuits from government and private lawsuits.
Our climate change damage evidence master list
Click here for the master list of climate change loss and damage evidence and other helpful information.
Other organizations protecting us from and fighting for new criminal laws against climate change and the global ecocide it causes
Final actions to protect yourself and learn more
1. Learn more about how bad climate change and global warming will get and on what timeframes.
This will help you determine if rebuilding at your current location is wise. To make this determination, review the following links:
At some point, it is essential to read this page. It takes you through the list of the many climate change crimes against humanity that the global fossil fuel cartel has committed over the last 40 years.
Today's Key Climate Change Facts
The Primary and Secondary Consequences of Climate Change
The Four Major Climate Change Tipping Points
2. Learn How to prevent your family or business from ever suffering again the pain and loss of the subsequent climate change aggravated consequences coming to your area.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result." --Albert Einstein
Unfortunately, global warming is accelerating for many reasons, as described above. If you are in a global warming unsafe zone, you will most certainly continue to experience the same or greater losses and suffering if you remain in that hazardous zone and do not adapt!
Take the time to carefully decide on your next step of repair, rebuilding, or moving step. As climate change accelerates, there will be many areas where rebuilding would be a recipe for repeated climate damage and destruction at even greater levels!
3: You may also be able to get your local, state, or national government to purchase your property at fair market value under the growing principles and allocations of climate change Managed Retreat.
Check with the appropriate agencies to see if you and your climate-related losses qualify for the Managed Retreat payments. Manage retreat is government double speak and spin for climate change-driven migration.
Government agencies have been deceived by decades of global fossil fuel cartel disinformation campaigns and are terrified even to use the term climate change migration. This new climate change-sanitized term is because they don't even want to admit climate change is a real problem. After all, if they did, they would have to do something practical and effective to fix it.
4: If you do decide to remain in your current location, you will need to begin the future climate consequence protection preparation and adaptation actions described on this page and then this page.
5. Share Your Success and Knowledge to Help Others
If you follow the above recovery advice and you are persistent, you will be made financially whole and may even get additional restitution for your pain and suffering or even punitive damages. Additionally, you will be executing justice by legally and ethically punishing those who created the harm you have suffered, and you will be protecting others from suffering as you are suffering now. Finally, you will be protecting the environment and the future for yourself, your children, and generations to come.
Please share your results with us at [email protected] . This is a critical situation where when you win and recover, the future and the environment also win!
Never forget, suing the global fossil fuel cartel members for your climate loss and damage will help to save humanity from mass extinction by helping to prevent humanity's crossing the last chance atmospheric carbon 450 ppm (parts per million) tipping point. (This page thoroughly explains the last chance for humanity at the carbon 450 ppm tipping point.)
Filing justified lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel members is now the most critical and important action that climate change activists, concerned citizens, mid-sized law firms, and lawyers can and must take to protect us from the greed, products, and toxic destructive actions of the global fossil fuel cartel.
Never forget that the legal actions of the Climate Justice Now program are required because our governments and politicians have utterly failed us. Our media and even our big environmental groups have failed us. They have all failed to enforce the survival-required, humanity-saving global fossil fuel reductions for decades.
Because of this overwhelming and ongoing failure to act by those we have trusted to protect us, individuals, law firms, and protective government agencies bringing tens of thousands of justified worldwide lawsuits against the members of the global fossil fuel cartel IS humanity's last best hope to stop the greed-intoxicated fossil fuel cartel before it destroys most of humanity and the Earth's biological systems.
Available climate change litigation educational classes
To reach the goal of 10,000 total lawsuits against the global fossil fuel cartel within the next five years, we will also need organizations like those below to help teach individuals and lawyers the latest information on the most successful legal actions against the global fossil fuel cartel. Please do not forget that the following organization(s) and their staff heroes and heroines are also aggressively pushing forward climate change justice and indirectly helping to end climate change.
Here is the information on available climate change litigation educational classes:
Climate change litigation is becoming an increasingly critical component of climate governance at the local, national, regional, and global levels, exerting pressure on government executive and legislative branches to act on climate change issues. At the same time, climate change-related cases have also been filed against private actors, mostly fossil fuel and cement companies, which are major greenhouse gas emitters. Young people, NGOs, and others have taken to the courts to challenge governments' and corporations' actions or inactions.
This course is based around the most compelling practical issues and relevant sectors while combining the scientific and legal frameworks and obstacles through which climate change litigation takes place. Finally, climate change litigation will be analyzed as a global phenomenon, taking stock of landmark examples at the international and domestic levels, wherever they appear.
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Be cognizant of the role of climate litigation in pursuing climate action
- Have a clear understanding of the principal issues, dynamics, and obstacles of climate change litigation, both from a domestic (comparative) and international perspective;
- Be better able to critically understand and assess the legal tools and principles related to climate change litigation;
- Be able to identify critical domestic, comparative, and international climate-related cases and opportunities for climate action.
This course offers a comprehensive overview of climate change law and the legal responses to the current climate crisis. Bringing together a distinguished cohort of scholars and practitioners, the course is designed to provide participants with a working knowledge of the relevant legal frameworks as well as to enhance their understanding of the way climate change impacts other areas of international law, including territory, human rights, trade, and investment.
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Have a clear understanding of the principal elements of International and Comparative Climate Change Law;
- Have a comprehension of the complex (scientific, economic, political and legal) framework of climate change issues;
- Better understand the international regime and the global governance of climate change, including as it relates to other areas of international law;
- Be able to critically assess the legal tools and principles related to climate change;
- Be able to analyse the principal challenges relating to the implementation and compliance of climate change law;
- Be able to identify national and international initiatives and opportunities for climate change action.
As to the prices, the courses each cost GBP 775 inclusive of VAT (if applicable).
People can register at the relevant course pages:
- For climate change law: https://www.biicl.org/events/11682/short-course-climate-change-law-hybrid
- For climate change litigation: https://www.biicl.org/events/11678/short-course-climate-change-litigation
Other References
Here are just a few encouraging articles about cities and counties filing lawsuits in their respective state courts against the fossil fuel industry to recover the loss and damage caused to them by escalating global warming:
LOS ANGELES CONTEMPLATES ITS OWN CLIMATE SUIT, TOO...
NEW YORK CITY SUES OIL COMPANIES OVER CLIMATE CHANGE, SAYS IT PLANS TO DIVEST…
CALIFORNIA JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF SUING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION...
THE GLOBAL CO2 RISE: THE FACTS, EXXON, AND THE FAVORITE DENIAL TRICKS...
(Click here to see the known primary and secondary climate change consequences.)
Here is a new video on the global fossil fuel cartel's Crimes Against Humanity.
Click Here to Get Free Alerts When We Receive New Anti-Cartel Evidence or Adverse Cartel Judgments or New Law Firms or Governmental Agents Who Have New Climate Change Loss and Damage Litigation Against the Global Fossil Fuel Cartel or its Members.
You will Also Receive Free Climate Change Consequence Alerts and Climate Science Updates!
Below are links to all parts of the Climate Justice Now program
Be sure your attorney, solicitor, law firm, or appropriate government agency staff read ALL of the Climate Justice Now pages below to get up to speed as quickly as possible about the best strategies and connections for bringing or advancing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel and its members.
The Climate Justice Now Program Overview Page:
Click here for this quick overview of the 3 parts of the Climate Justice Now program. It covers the gold of the program and why the program is critical at this moment in climate change history.
The Climate Justice Action Page 1:
Click here for Part 1 which is an online public trial of the perpetrators of climate change and their shocking crimes against humanity over the last 4-6 decades.
It is a must-read for even hardened climate change activists and researchers because it lays out the full spectrum of serious crimes committed by the perpetrators of climate change, many of which have never been seen before.
The Climate Change Justice Corrective Actions Page 2:
Click here for the three most critical actions needed to stop the ongoing crimes of the global fossil fuel cartel from destroying humanity and achieve climate change justice.
The Climate Change Trial Evidence Page 2a:
Click here for the master list of evidence and documentation for the online global fossil fuel cartel jury trial and for ongoing litigation against the global fossil fuel cartel. We just moved this page because it is expanding quickly.
The Climate Change Law Firm Listing and Law Suit Tips Page 3:
Click here for a list of law firms that may be able to help the many worldwide victims of climate change. Simply because it directly and immediately starts removing all profit from cartel wrongdoing. Eventually and hopefully soon, successful court judgments and big damage awards against the global fossil fuel cartel, related companies, senior executives, and associated enablers may prove to become more effective in ending the climate change extinction emergency than previous public protests, the previous 27 international climate conferences, and current climate educational efforts.
Volunteer
We are actively recruiting new volunteers worldwide to work specifically on promoting the Climate Justice Now program and its actions. Click here to become a volunteer in the Climate Justice Now program and help forward the justice actions described on this page and throughout the Climate Justice Now pages.
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