The three NGOs are the same ones that successfully brought the French government to justice for its “climate inaction” last year. Their aim is to open the “trial of a financer of climate chaos”. This is the first time that a commercial bank has been targeted for its high-risk activities in the oil and gas sector. BNP Paribas has three months to “comply with the law”, failing which the associations will refer the matter to the Paris court. The aim is to achieve “the world’s first climate dispute”.
