Lawsuit seeking damages and other relief from fossil fuel companies for alleged conduct that the City and County of Honolulu contends actually and proximately caused climate change impacts.

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP

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opposition

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - opposition

answer

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - answer

order

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - order

Hawai‘i State Court Issued Final Orders Denying Oil and Gas Companies’ Motions to Dismiss Honolulu’s Climate Case but Granted Mining Company’s Motion

letter

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - letter

ruling

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - ruling

Hawai'i State Court Allowed Honolulu to Proceed with Climate Change Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies

reply

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - reply

response

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - response

complaint

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - complaint

Honolulu Sued Fossil Fuel Companies in State Court

motion to dismiss

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - motion to dismiss

minute order

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - minute order

amicus brief

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP - amicus brief

Hawai‘i Trial Court Rejected Fossil Fuel Companies’ Motions to End Honolulu Climate Suit

Hawai‘i Trial Court Denied Fossil Fuel Defendants’ Motion to Stay Climate Case Pending Supreme Court Resolution of Suncor v. Boulder 

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An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

Oil is a combustible liquid fossil fuel composed mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring as crude oil and refined into petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and kerosene.

Fossil gas, commonly known as natural gas, is a fossil fuel consisting chiefly of methane with smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and trace gases, found in underground deposits.