End of the carbon war?

摘要

New York City is taking BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell to court over climate change (see bit.ly/2plYscn). This unleashing of lawyers in pursuit of billions of dollars appears to raise the prospect of a meaty battle. But is this merely a late skirmish in a long global conflict that is coming to an end? Victory is in sight for the environmental forces, according to Jeremy Leggett, Founder/Director of Solarcentury, 'scourge of the oil companies'and'first general of the Anti-carbon Army'. The end of the conflict that Leggett himself named in his book entitled The carbon war (Penguin, 1999), involves financial rather than legal forces. On 3 January 2017, Leggett wrote:'... it is rare for a report to hold the potential to change the world. But one published on 14 December 2017 did.'