In February 2024, the New Zealand Supreme Court overturned the previous strike outs in the case of Michael John Smith in tort against seven major New Zealand companies in the dairy, energy, steel, mining and infrastructure sectors. Michael Smith is of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu descent and serves as climate change spokesperson for the Māori Iwi Chairs Forum ‘Pou Take Āhuarangi’. Smith estimates that the respondent companies’ operations together are associated with approximately a third of New Zealand’s country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions … (more)
[Caroline E Foster, Verfassungsblog, 17 March 2024]
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