{"id":51023,"date":"2020-06-08T17:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=event&#038;p=51023"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:01:22","slug":"strategic-climate-litigation-insights-from-global-experience","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/events\/strategic-climate-litigation-insights-from-global-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Climate Litigation: insights from global experience &#8211; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Strategic Climate Litigation: insights from global experience | LSE Online Event\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xgsRLVBWb6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate litigation has been used as a strategic tool to advance climate policy goals for at least three decades. As the number of cases addressing the causes and consequences of climate change and the public interest in such litigation has increased, so has public interest in such litigation. Today, climate litigation is widely considered to be a governance mechanism to address climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this webinar, a&nbsp;panel of experts and practitioners will discuss the extent to which climate change litigation is driving governments to adopt more ambitious climate policies and inducing a change of behaviour among major GHG emitting corporations. The panel will also explore potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on future litigation cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irum Ahsan&nbsp;is Principal Counsel, Law and Policy Reform in the Office of the General Counsel at the Asian Development Bank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Burger,&nbsp;Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Carnwath&nbsp;is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joana Setzer&nbsp;(<a class=\"link link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoanaSetzer\" aria-describedby=\"link-description-new-window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">@JoanaSetzer&#65279;<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M14.42 1.04L3.2.7a.8.8 0 00-.8.76v.1a.8.8 0 00.76.7l9.39.3L.93 14.16c-.3.3-.3.8 0 1.1l.09.08c.3.23.73.2 1.01-.07L13.65 3.65l.29 9.4a.8.8 0 00.8.76.79.79 0 00.77-.8L15.17 1.8a.82.82 0 00-.75-.76z\" fill=\"#2e3152\"><\/path><\/svg><\/a>) is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Thornton&nbsp;is Chief Executive Officer &ndash; ClientEarth and Visiting Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Falkner&nbsp;(<a class=\"link link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robert_falkner\" aria-describedby=\"link-description-new-window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">@robert_falkner&#65279;<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M14.42 1.04L3.2.7a.8.8 0 00-.8.76v.1a.8.8 0 00.76.7l9.39.3L.93 14.16c-.3.3-.3.8 0 1.1l.09.08c.3.23.73.2 1.01-.07L13.65 3.65l.29 9.4a.8.8 0 00.8.76.79.79 0 00.77-.8L15.17 1.8a.82.82 0 00-.75-.76z\" fill=\"#2e3152\"><\/path><\/svg><\/a>) is Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/london.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51202\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>In this webinar, a panel of experts and practitioners will discuss the extent to which climate change litigation is driving governments to adopt more ambitious climate policies and inducing a change of behaviour among major GHG emitting corporations. 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