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Lawyer who defeated Shell predicts ‘avalanche’ of climate cases
Seven months after his landmark victory against Royal Dutch Shell, Roger Cox has never been busier.
Little known outside his native Netherlands, Cox is probably the world’s most successful climate litigator. His win against Shell in May, when a judge in The Hague ordered the Anglo-Dutch energy supermajor to cut its carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030, rippled around the world.
He is now preparing to respond to Shell’s appeal next year, petitioning the Belgian government to comply with another of his court victories and consulting on half a dozen climate cases in other countries.
After the success of the Shell case he expects copycat legal action against other oil majors, companies in other sectors and eventually individual directors.
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