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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nicole Winfield

Greenpeace hails Italy court ruling allowing climate lawsuit against energy company ENI to go ahead

Italy-Climate Ruling - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Italy’s highest court has ruled that a lawsuit brought by climate activists against Italian energy company ENI and its government shareholders can go ahead, in what Greenpeace said on Tuesday was a victory for efforts to pursue climate justice in Italy.

In an ordinance released on Monday, the Court of Cassation rejected ENI’s motions to dismiss the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds and ordered the case to be heard on its merits by a Rome tribunal.

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