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This article considers the growing number of climate litigation cases across the world and looks at the role that money plays in terms of financing legal challenges and for compensating for climate-change related losses. The article includes quotes from Joana Setzer and references data from the 2023 Climate Litigation Study<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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