The secret weapon that could finally force climate action

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An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies. Is this the tool we need to effectively prosecute the world’s biggest carbon emitters? Arif Pujianto couldn’t sleep. All day, he had watched the waves rising from the nearby shoreline. When dawn broke, the water had risen further, and the area where he lives on the low-lying Pari Island in Indonesia was devastated: rubbish strewn everywhere, the walls of his home collapsing, the family’s drinking well polluted with salt water. Since that night in December 2021, the tidal floods have returned dozens of times, making life almost impossible. “I feel angry and afraid,” says Pujianto. “If Pari Island sinks, where will we live?” Eventually, he decided to do something about it. Pujianto is one of four residents of the island who have filed a lawsuit against c
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