Human rights are increasingly being used to support climate change cases in courts around the world, and plaintiffs are using alternative strategies to bring lawsuits against major fossil fuel companies, finds a new global review of climate litigation published today (3 July 2020). Read more
Companies are increasingly in the firing line for climate litigation and they need to be thinking about liability risk when making the decisions that impact how they run their businesses and the information they provide to shareholders and the public, says Rebecca Byrnes. Read more
Joana Setzer says it is likely that more and more litigation cases will go beyond environmental law, delving into tax and commercial law, or going after subsidies the companies have taken. Read more
he findings of the report also feature as one of the lead stories on the CNN homepage. Read more
The Times Law reported the findings that legal actions over failure to act on climate change have kicked off in at least 28 countries. Read more
This paper discusses the history and the future prospects of private climate litigation, which seeks to hold private entities legally... Read more
Last week families from across the EU launched the first strategic climate court case against the European Union (EU). Some... Read more
All of the 197 countries, nations and territories that have signed or ratified the Paris Agreement now have at least... Read more
