[4] Activities undertaken by the group have included climate change litigation, consultation, submissions, and pro-bono legal advice.
[7] LCANZI argued that the First Gas advertisements amounted to greenwashing, due to factual inaccuracies and encouragement of complacency instead of action to address climate change.
[8] This case questioned the Climate Change Commission's carbon calculations and accounting[4] that informed the recommendations for the government's amendment of New Zealand's nationally determined contribution for 2021 to 2030.
[10] The Climate Change Commission described defending itself as a non-beneficial use of time and resources for the New Zealand public, and, unsuccessfully, sought for LCANZI to pay for its costs.
Courts have also highlighted the costs of private litigation as a barrier for using this method to achieve timely and efficient action on climate change.