climate litigation

The first climate case to reach the Supreme Court in Brazil - brought by four opposition parties - had its public hearing in September. Joana Setzer, who made a presentation to the hearing, reports from the Court and considers the case’s wider significance. Read more

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

New scholarship has identified trends, constraints, and opportunities for climate litigation in the Global South. While countries in the Global... Read more

Cases involving climate change have been litigated in the courts for some time, but new directions and trends have started... 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

Studies of climate change litigation have proliferated over the past two decades, as lawsuits across the world increasingly bring policy... Read more