Ben McKay/AAP, Mark Baker/AP, The Conversation The government’s plan to change the law to bar claims for harms from greenhouse gas emissions shuts down New Zealand’s most important climate tort case, meaning it will never be decided on its merits. The move overrides a unanimous Supreme Court decision that Smith v Fonterra, a case against some of New Zealand’s major corporate emitters, should go to trial. It also guts the future capacity of tort law – a branch of civil law allowing people to se