A new wave of climate lawsuits is targeting state institutions that still provide public funding on fossil fuels, despite promises to turn off the funding tap. Today's climate crisis is already worse than scientists predicted, yet governments continue to pour billions of dollars of public money into the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions: fossil fuels.

Activists have been protesting this for years, and now we are witnessing the fight spilling over into the courtrooms. In the face of climate catastrophe, civil society is sending a clear message: governments that continue to use taxpayers’ money to finance fossil fuels should expect to be sued. (Maria Alejandra Vesga Correa, more at climatechangenews.com)