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Brazil Prosecutors Sue Shell for $108 Mn over Deadly 2024 Floods
Prosecutors seek $108 million in damages, saying Shell’s emissions helped worsen flooding that killed nearly 200 people and displaced 500,000.
- On Friday, Brazilian prosecutors filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Shell's subsidiary, demanding $108 million in compensation for deadly 2024 floods in Rio Grande do Sul State.
- Torrential rains in Brazil during April and May 2024 killed nearly 200 people and displaced 500,000, prompting prosecutors to argue Shell's liability matches its estimated 2% contribution to historical global greenhouse gas emissions.
- Instituto Preservar lawyer Thales Miola said, "Major polluters, who contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and to climate change, must also answer for the losses they help cause," supporting the civil suit's environmental accountability argument.
- Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, told AFP, "This is the first time a national public prosecutor is suing an oil major for a climate disaster."
- Similar lawsuits are pending worldwide against RWE and Holcim, as NGOs use courts to hold major emitters accountable, despite recent setbacks in the United States and New Zealand where legal changes blocked such action.
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Brasilia. Brazil’s prosecution sued Shell’s local oil subsidiary for $108 million, following the deadly floods that hit the south of the country in 2024, according to a court document obtained on Friday by Afp.
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In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2024, half a million people have to flee the devastating floods, nearly 200 have to die. Brazil's prosecutor's office is co-inflicted with the British oil company Shell and now demands 108 million euros.
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