Australian Government sued by 23-year-old Melbourne student over financial risk of climate change

A 23-year-old Melbourne law student is suing the Australian Government for failing to disclose the risk climate change poses to Australians' super and other safe investments. Katta O'Donnell, the head litigant for the class action suit, said she hoped the case would change the way Australia handled climate change.

According to University of Melbourne Professor Jaqueline Peel, Australia is a "hotspot" for climate litigation.

"We have around 90 or so cases so far, stretching back to the 1990s," Professor Peel, who has published extensively on the topic, said.

Read further on her comment in this ABC news piece here.

The news was also published in The New York Times on 23 July 2020.