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In recent weeks, the Supreme Court of New Zealand has delivered a landmark decision<\/a> on a case brought by M\u0101ori elder Mike Smith<\/a> against a group of New Zealand\u2019s largest corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters.<\/p>\n\n

The Supreme Court overturned lower court rulings which had struck out Smith\u2019s ambitious claim seeking to establish civil (tort) liability for those emitters\u2019 contributions to climate change. Smith argued these contributions had a negative impact on his family\u2019s and tribe\u2019s land, water and cultural values.<\/p>\n\n

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One of the organisers of the Waiho Papa Moana hikoi (protest march) Mike Smith speaks to the crowd in Auckland.
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With the Supreme Court decision, Smith has won the right to present his full case before the High Court.<\/p>\n\n

While only the beginning of what could be a long legal process, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision has attracted local and international attention as one that \u201cmay open a new avenue in climate law<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

The case against the corporate emitters<\/h2>\n\n

In 2019, Smith sued seven New Zealand-based corporate entities in his capacity as an elder of the Ng\u0101puhi and Ng\u0101ti Kahu iwi (tribes) and climate change spokesperson for a national forum of tribal leaders.<\/p>\n\n

The defendants include New Zealand\u2019s largest company Fonterra<\/a> (responsible for around 30% of the world\u2019s dairy exports), along with other corporate entities involved in industries either directly emitting GHGs or supplying fossil fuels such as oil, gas or coal.<\/p>\n\n

Smith argued the activities and effects of the corporate defendants amount to three forms of \u201ctort\u201d or civil wrong: public nuisance, negligence, and a new form of civil wrong described as a \u201cproposed climate system damage tort\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

The first two causes of action \u2013 public nuisance and negligence \u2013 have long lineages in the common law.<\/p>\n\n

As touched on in the Supreme Court decision, public nuisance claims were used by claimants affected by various forms of pollution and other harm during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n

Many of the leading common law tort cases \u2013 especially on public nuisance \u2013 were decided well before the emergence of modern scientific understanding and consensus on climate change.<\/p>\n\n

A major issue for the Supreme Court (and now the High Court, where this claim will proceed) was whether longstanding rules and principles of tort liability should be adjusted in light of the contemporary, existential challenges presented by climate change.<\/p>\n\n

This might involve adapting established tort categories of public nuisance and negligence. It might also involve fashioning an entirely new \u201cclimate system damage\u201d tort.<\/p>\n\n

A key plank of the corporate emitters\u2019 argument was that the courts \u201care ill-suited to deal with a systemic problem of this nature with all the complexity entailed\u201d. They argued the courts should leave those inherently political issues to the politicians.<\/p>\n\n

The Supreme Court rejected that argument. Unless parliament has, through statute, clearly displaced civil obligations \u2013 and the court found that it had not \u2013 a judicial pathway is \u201copen for the common law to operate, develop and evolve\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

The challenges of establishing causation<\/h2>\n\n

Questions of causation and proximity have been stumbling blocks for litigants overseas<\/a> attempting to bring similar tort claims to Smith\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n

Defendants typically argue it is impossible to show the global emission contributions of a small group of even relatively large entities can be evidentially linked to the climate-related harm experienced by plaintiffs. In this case, the seven corporate emitters are associated with around 30% of total New Zealand emissions.<\/p>\n\n

However, New Zealand contributes less than 0.2% of global emissions. As the High Court judge put it, \u201cthe defendants\u2019 contribution to [\u2026] global emissions is minute\u201d. To accept Smith\u2019s claim \u201cwould be to expose (them) to an undue burden of legal responsibility, way beyond their contribution to damaging global greenhouse gas emissions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

The Supreme Court did not agree that the challenges of causation or proximity necessarily doom Smith\u2019s case to failure. The court suggested that there may be scope for adjusting the causation rules to better reflect the nature of modern environmental issues like climate change.<\/p>\n\n

Smith\u2019s position (in part) is that instead of requiring litigants to prove that damage to their land and resources is directly attributable to the activities of one or more corporate emitters, the legal test should be adjusted to establish civil liability if defendants have materially contributed to the global problem.<\/p>\n\n

But the Court didn\u2019t think these difficult questions could be resolved without a full trial.<\/p>\n\n

What role for tikanga and where now?<\/h2>\n\n

An important dimension of the case which distinguishes it from similar proceedings overseas is the relevance of a body of indigenous custom, law and practice known as \u201ctikanga M\u0101ori<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

Recent Supreme Court decisions<\/a> have accepted and applied tikanga as the \u201cfirst law of New Zealand\u201d including in relation to environmental protection.<\/p>\n\n

The Court followed that approach in this case, accepting that crucial aspects of Smith\u2019s case rely on tikanga principles.<\/p>\n\n

Smith is not just suing on his own behalf, \u201cbut as a kaitiaki (carer) acting on behalf of the whenua (land), wai (freshwater) and moana (sea) \u2013 distinct entities in their own right\u201d. The court pronounced that \u201caddressing and assessing matters of tikanga simply cannot be avoided\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

With Smith\u2019s claim having been reinstated, the parties now return to the High Court. Unless there is legislative intervention, the normal pretrial steps of discovery, evidence exchange and preparation will proceed. It promises to be one of New Zealand\u2019s hardest fought and most closely watched private law climate cases.<\/p>\n\n

This article is republished from The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

This article\u00a0is a guest post and doesn’t necessarily represent the views of Greenpeace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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