One can of course be of the opinion that many corporations have so far been doing too little to protect the climate.
However, the current wave of climate action is highly risky and a deep encroachment on fundamental entrepreneurial freedoms.
Environmental activists want to have Volkswagen dictate by court exactly how Europe's largest manufacturer is to phase out combustion technology.
The template comes from the Netherlands, where a court did the same with the oil multinational Shell.
If the plaintiffs succeed, international competition will rub hands together over such a distortion of competition.
Especially since VW will then lack a lot of money for investments in modern mobility.
How would it go on?
Would the cement industry be next, or would steel?
Or maybe the food manufacturers including supermarkets, because “food waste” is responsible for a large part of the CO2 emissions in the world?
In a free-democratic system, politics must define social goals.
Everything else is arbitrary climate - also by court ruling.