Last month, a group of 10 families filed an action against the European Union (EU) at the European General Court, the EU’s second highest court. All claim to have suffered loss from climate change. Specifically, they argue that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the EU have violated their fundamental rights to health, occupation, property and equal treatment. The plaintiffs want ...

Bloomberg Investors dumped riskier assets as a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies showed signs of deepening and accelerating. Stocks dropped, Treasuries rallied and the dollar climbed with the yen. The S&P 500 sank the most in three weeks with industrial companies getting hit hardest after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, ...

Bloomberg A rout in commodities deepened as the threat of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies intensified, hitting markets from steelmakers to soybeans. As the tit-for-tat trade dispute between the US and China stepped up, a Bloomberg gauge of commodities fell to the lowest since early April, with agriculture being the worst hit. Almost all raw materials ...