{"id":2884,"date":"2023-05-09T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2023-05-09T13:45:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:45:39","slug":"italian-oil-company-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-early-knowledge-of-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/09\/italian-oil-company-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-early-knowledge-of-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian oil company Eni is facing a lawsuit over alleged early recognition of the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\"><span>Italian oil company Eni is facing the country&#039;s first climate lawsuit, with environmental groups accusing the company of using &quot;lobbying and greenwashing&quot; to shift more fossil fuels despite knowing about the risks posed by its product since the 1970s. <\/span><span>Greenpeace Italy<\/span><span> and Italian law group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 % by 2030.\u00a0<\/span><span>&quot;The urgency to act on the climate crisis has prompted us to file Italy&#039;s first climate lawsuit against the country&#039;s largest energy company,&quot; said Matteo Ceruti, the plaintiffs&#039; lawyer.\u00a0<\/span><span>The allegations stem in part from a study commissioned by Eni between 1969 and 1970 from its Isvet research center and shared with the Guardian by the non-profit climate intelligence service DeSmog. The report made it clear that the growing use of fossil fuels without control could lead to a climate crisis within a few decades.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201c[C]albon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by an average of 10 % globally over the past century due to increased use [of fossil fuels], according to a recent UN Secretary-General&#039;s report; by the year 2000, this increase could reach 25 %, with &quot;catastrophic&quot; consequences for the climate,&quot; the report said. <em>(Stella Levantesi in Rome, The Guardian)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian oil company Eni is facing the country&#039;s first climate lawsuit, with environmental groups accusing the company of using &quot;lobbying and greenwashing&quot; to replace more fossil fuels despite knowing the risks its product posed since the 1970s. Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}