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
Climate change litigation has been growing in importance over the past three decades as a way of either advancing or delaying effective action on climate change. This report reviews key developments around the world in climate litigation over the period May 2019 to May 2020. Read more
Sam Fankhauser, Director of the Grantham Research Institute, says a Court of Appeal ruling on Heathrow Airport is a good ruling because it makes clear that the Government must take account of its domestic and international commitments on reducing emissions of greenhouse gas emissions when making decisions about long-lived infrastructure projects. 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
This policy report provides an overview of current issues in climate change litigation, focusing on selected cases and developments from May 2018 to May 2019. Read more
Legal action on climate change increasingly spreading beyond the United States Climate change lawsuits have been launched in at least... Read more
As the implementation guidelines to the Paris Agreement are negotiated at COP24, this commentary asks whether and to what extent they will include human rights language, and reviews examples from around the world of how human rights issues are gaining more prominence in relation to climate action. Read more
This brief summarises the most recent trends in climate change litigation and legislation, now with global coverage. Read more
This submission to the Talanoa Dialogue covers themes of climate legislation, institutions and governance, and the credibility of climate change commitments. Read more
Major polluters and governments could be held to account by “climate justice” court cases, said Jeff Sachs, Professor of Economics at Columbia University in his recent lecture at the London School of Economics. A video of the lecture is now available. Read more
