‘Duty of Care’ tells the exclusive inside story of Roger Cox, the Dutch lawyer who initiated the groundbreaking climate trials against the (Dutch) government, and against the oil and gas giant Shell, two landmark rulings, that sent shockwaves through political and corporate boardrooms around the world and led to an international wave of successful climate cases.
With echoes of the lawsuits against Big Tobacco this is an energizing court room drama about the pioneers of climate litigation, as one of the final resorts to break through the stalemate in global climate action. But also a personal journey of an ambitious real-estate lawyer with a wife from a Shell family who goes from climate-apathy to activism after he stumbles upon Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient truth’. Or how a documentary eventually gives birth to a new kind of unexpected climate champion, listed as one of the 100 most influential people of 2021, by Time Magazine and Al Gore.
A gripping documentary.
Knack MagazineAn impassioned documentary.
Down to Earth MagazineDuty of Care gives even the most pessimistic person a little hope.
De Groene Amsterdammer.
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