Writing in the Law Society Gazette, Sukhi Kaler and Tim Malloch examine how climate-related disputes are increasingly engaging familiar areas of commercial law, from directors’ duties and corporate disclosures to shareholder actions and jurisdictional challenges.
Sukhi and Tim also look at an important evolution in climate litigation: claims focused not only on what companies are doing now or planning for the future, but on what they knew about climate risk in the past. Against a changing international and regulatory backdrop, Sukhi and Tim consider what these developments could mean for companies, their directors and the disputes lawyers advising them.