Center for Critical Thought Research Seminar
Dr Yogi Hendlin joins for Centre for Critical Thought from Erasmus University Rotterdam for our November research seminar.
He will be presenting his research on: What can Climate Litigation learn from Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement? Abstract: The 1998 US Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) involving $246 billion in payments from the major US tobacco companies to the 50 states over 25 years to compensate for tobacco-related costs to state public medical insurance, is the largest financial reckoning ever of an industry to the public.
The process, reasoning, and debates surrounding the tobacco MSA offer a model for holding the fossil fuel industries accountable for their role in denying, covering-up, and lobbying against climate change policy, even as their internal records show they have been well aware of the consequences since at least the 1970s.
Date: 3 November
Time: 6pm-7:30pm
Location: KS11
