Last Updated 2.29.24. This page is Part Three of the Climate Justice Now program. (The full Climate Justice Now program is described here.)

Prologue

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, decades-long acts of the perpetrators of climate change. 

Overview

This article is for anyone (including businesses and state and national government officials) who has experienced climate change loss and damage and wants to receive reparations (financial restitution) for the climate change loss and damage.

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.

• 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://www.ucsusa.org/about/news/supreme-court-rejects-fossil-fuel-companies-petitions-hear-appeals-climate-lawsuits

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042023/supreme-court-fossil-fuel-climate-change-lawsuits/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-supreme-court-ruling-the-fossil-fuel-industry-doesnt-like

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118188330/federal-judges-deal-the-oil-industry-another-setback-in-climate-litigation

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:

1. 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.
2. 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/

   Tel: 503-228-5222Fax: 503-273-9175
   820 SW 2nd Ave, Suite 200 Portland OR 97204

   Simon Greenstone Panatier in Dallas

   https://sgptrial.com

   Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Houston

   Dallas, Texas Tel: 214.276.7680 Fax: 214.276.7699901 Main Street Suite 5900 Dallas, Texas

   Long Beach, California Tel: 562.590.3400 Fax: 562.590.34123760 Kilroy Airport Way Suite 680 Long Beach, California Los Angeles

   New York, New York Tel: 212.634.1690 Fax: 214.276.7699420 Lexington Avenue Suite 2848 New York, New York New York City

   Houston, Texas Tel: 214.276.7680 Fax: 214.276.7699440  Louisiana Street Suite 802 Houston, Texas Houston

    

   Worthington & Caron in San Pedro, California

   https://www.worthingtoncaron.com

   273 W. 7th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731

   (800) 831-9399

   (Contact the Oregon Multnomah County litigation department for more information on these state or government-level lawsuits against the cartel.)
3. 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.
4. 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.)
5. 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.
6. 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.)
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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

[email protected]

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

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.

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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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