[posted by Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, Joan Martínez-Alier on Sustainability Science, May 2018]   Introduction Transitions towards more sustainable futures could benefit from supporting those civil society actors that relentlessly oppose and transform local unsustainabilities across the globe. Instead, persecution, criminalization and violence against such grassroots activists, including their brutal...

[posted by Dana Drugmand on Climate Liability News, August 14, 2018] A lawsuit dubbed the People’s Climate Case, which challenges the European Union’s 2030 emissions reduction target and other climate policies, was given the green light by a court on Monday and is moving forward. The European General Court accepted the case brought by 10 families from Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Romania, Kenya and Fiji and a youth association in...

[posted by Tina Bellon on Reuters, August 11, 2018] A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes cancer. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG...

[posted by Ludwig Burger on Business Insider, August 23, 2018] Bayer said the number of US lawsuits brought against newly acquired Monsanto has risen to about 8,000 from 5,200 previously, after Monsanto was ordered to pay damages for not warning of alleged cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers. “The number of plaintiffs in both state and federal litigation is approximately 8,000 as of end-July. These numbers may rise or...

[posted by Jonathan Watts on The Guardian, July 21, 2018] On a planet of billions, nine represent the strong minority battling murder in the global corruption of land rights. Individually, they are stories of courage and tragedy. Together, they tell a tale of a natural world under ever more violent assault. The portraits in this series are of nine people who are risking their lives to defend the land and environment in some of the...

Il caldo che uccide

[The Economist, 28 luglio 2018. Traduzione di Federico Ferrone per Internazionale] Sodankyla, una città nella Lapponia finlandese poco più a nord del circolo polare artico, ha una temperatura media annua appena superiore allo zero. Gli abitanti aspettano con ansia il breve periodo di luglio quando il clima è simile a quello estivo. Quest’anno sarebbero stati felici anche con molto meno. Il 18 luglio il termometro ha toccato i 32,1...