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Italian banks and climate litigation

Francesca Palisi
March 2024 - n. 3
Keywords: Banche, contenzioso climatico, greenwashing
Jel codes: G21, G28, Q54, K40

Recent years have seen a progressive focus on climate litigation, which raises interesting legal issues, in order to identify boundaries and tools on which corporate liability for climate change can be based. The challenge is to transfer into the Italian legal categories a complex matter, which is essentially regulated by supranational sources, including soft law. In order to assess whether there is a case of climate litigation, two conditions must be met: the case is brought before a court; the case raises a relevant question, of law or fact, concerning the science of climate change. A complementary set – also mapped as climate litigation – is made up of claims related to climate-justified actions, in particular, greenwashing practices.

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