Ahead of the first ever high-level ministerial roundtable on just transition, to be held at COP28, Antonina Scheer, Tiffanie Chan and Setenay Hizliok outline a blueprint to drive discussions with national policymakers on priority areas for connecting climate ambition with social justice. Read more
This report consists of a response to a call for inputs on ‘Investors, ESG and Human Rights’ by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. It focuses on the climate change-related human rights responsibilities of investors. Read more
This Explainer defines the concept of 'non-economic loss and damage', including examples of this type of climate impact and how they are measured, evaluated and considered in adaptation planning and international action on climate change. Read more
Governments sometimes adopt policies that are not aligned with their preferences or have not come onto their agendas when doing... Read more
Informed by research conducted using the Climate Change Laws of the World database, this report consists of a submission to a call for inputs on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change. Read more
This article reports on a lawsuit being made by a group Swiss women who are taking their government to European Court of Human Rights, over claim that its failure to act on climate change is violating human rights. Read more
is article reports on an inquiry by the human rights commission in the Philippines which sought to investigate companies’ responsibility for climate damages stemming from their operations. Read more
This article revisits and expands on extant scholarly inquiries into the so-called ‘rights turn’ in climate litigation, with the objective of providing a more comprehensive appreciation of the role of human rights litigation in the context of the climate emergency. Read more
Annalisa Savaresi and Joana Setzer outline trends in climate cases that rely on human rights arguments to promote action on climate change – and also a growing body of ‘just transition’ cases that are questioning the distribution of the benefits and burdens being created by the drive to net-zero. Read more
This commentary by Joana Setzer and Délton Carvalho considers a lawsuit: Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) v. Brazil filed in... Read more
