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Climate risks are becoming legal liabilities for the energy sector

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  • Justin Gundlach

    (Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law)

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The number of plaintiffs taking energy firms to court for ignoring climate-related risks is growing. By revealing how the sector is not prepared — and not preparing — for what is coming, their cases are pressing the energy sector to treat those risks as a cost of doing business.

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  • Justin Gundlach, 2020. "Climate risks are becoming legal liabilities for the energy sector," Nature Energy, Nature, vol. 5(2), pages 94-97, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natene:v:5:y:2020:i:2:d:10.1038_s41560-019-0540-x
    DOI: 10.1038/s41560-019-0540-x
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    1. Chia‐Chi Lee & Shih‐Yun Kuo & Huang‐Hsiung Hsu & Tung‐Li Mo & En‐Yu Chang & Kuan‐Chun Huang, 2023. "How does the research community contribute to corporate climate‐related risk disclosures? The gap between ideals and reality," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 30(2), pages 927-940, March.
    2. Dietz, Simon & Gardiner, Dan & Jahn, Valentin & Noels, Jolien, 2021. "How ambitious are oil and gas companies’ climate goals?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112536, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Wang, Chaohui & Wang, Shuai & Gao, Zhiwei & Song, Zhi, 2021. "Effect evaluation of road piezoelectric micro-energy collection-storage system based on laboratory and on-site tests," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 287(C).

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