Climate Change Laws of the World
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About
Climate Change Laws of the World covers national-level climate change legislation and policies globally. The database covers climate and climate-related laws, as well as laws and policies promoting low carbon transitions, which reflects the relevance of climate policy in areas including energy, transport, land use, and climate resilience.
Climate Change Litigation of the World features climate litigation cases from 25 countries. These cases raise issues of law or fact regarding the science of climate change and/or climate change mitigation and adaptation policies or efforts before an administrative, judicial or other investigatory body. The dataset does not include the United States – To access information about climate change litigation in the US, please click here to go to the Sabin Center / Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer database. This will take you to a different website and will open in a new window.
For details about methodology and scope, as well as for a report on trends in litigation and legislation in 2017, see https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/globaltrends2017/
Use and reference of the data
The authors encourage the use of this database. Users are welcome to download, save, or distribute the results electronically or in any other format, without written permission of the authors.
Please reference the source as follows:
Climate Change Laws of the World database, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Available at: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/legislation/.
Invitation to contribute
We aim for the datasets to be as comprehensive and accurate as possible. However, there is no claim to have identified every relevant law, policy or court case in the countries covered. We invite the readers of this report to draw our attention to any entries we may have missed. Please send your comments (attaching supporting documents if possible) to: gri.cgl@lse.ac.uk.