Coalition of lawyers, journalists and campaigners challenge climate-busting mega projects exposed in Guardian investigation
A coalition of environmental lawyers, investigative journalists and campaigners has launched a group to challenge the “carbon bomb” fossil fuel projects revealed in a Guardian investigation.to share expertise and resources in the fight to halt the projects and prevent the catastrophic climate breakdown they would cause.
The new campaigning network aims to coordinate legal challenges and activist campaigns against these projects and the companies and politicians supporting them. “It only takes a handful of dedicated people – lawyers, campaigners, activists – to defuse a carbon bomb,” said Kjell Kühne, from the University of Leeds, who led the. “And we need such a team for each and everyone of these projects. These will be the epic battles of the ‘keep it in the ground’ movement.”
Alongside those organisations that have signed up, organisers say other groups of environmental lawyers, investigative journalists and philanthropic funders have expressed an interest in the movement.
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