Ontario NDP Introduce Climate Liability Bill

The Ontario NDP recently introduced Bill 21, Liability for Climate-Related Harms Act, 2018. This private members bill would impose strict liability on fossil fuel producers for damages arising from climate change harms, including:

• economic loss or physical loss of property, infrastructure, structures, resources or other assets;
• costs associated with obtaining and maintaining insurance in respect to such losses;
• death, injury, illness or other physical or psychological harms and costs associated with treating or caring for persons suffering from them;
• ·ocean acidification;
• loss of land or damage to infrastructure due to rising sea levels;
• costs of monitoring, research and analysing the climate and the weather;