Countries that fall short in efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C face growing legal risks that could push them to accelerate climate adaptation efforts.
The threat of lawsuits now looms over companies and governments that don’t take aggressive climate action, following an advisory opinion from the
“This acceleration of the momentum from the legal side would help with the business impetus toward climate adaptation and mitigation,” he said at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit in Singapore on Wednesday.
Winston Chow, Professor, Urban Climate, Singapore Management University and Christina Ng, Managing Director, Energy Shift Institute discuss the future of climate goal setting in business and finance with Bloomberg’s David Stringer at the 2025 Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit in Singapore. Source: Bloomberg