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Canada (Attorney General), 2015 BCCA 163, the
British Columbia Court of Appeal concluded that
while policy decisions are outside the realm of civil
liability, “incompetently” implementing policy decisions are not be immune. In the wake of the Urgenda
ruling, a similar climate change litigation case is
being mounted in Belgium. At the September 15th
event, the majority of the panellists agreed that climate change litigation was at least a possibility in
Canada. Hon. Stephen discussed a Charter claim
while David Estrin discussed public nuisance. Dean
Lorne Sossin went so far as to say that “climate litigation is inevitable.”
Outside the law there are also signs of change. The
Pope’s most recent encyclical contains a strong call
to profoundly reform the global economic system.
Following the publication of her book This Changes
Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate last year,
Naomi Klein recently released to The Leap Manif