{"id":4455,"date":"2010-11-04T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4455"},"modified":"2017-08-01T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:20:38","slug":"visiting-fellow-publishes-new-book-on-private-climate-change-lawsuits-under-english-law","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/news\/visiting-fellow-publishes-new-book-on-private-climate-change-lawsuits-under-english-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Fellow publishes new book on private climate change lawsuits under English law"},"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\"><p>Giedre Kaminskaite-Salters has published a new book, &lsquo;Constructing a Private Climate Change Lawsuit under English Law: a comparative perspective&rsquo;. The book will be of particular interest to lawyers in multinational corporations and certain non-governmental organisations, but the book will also have relevance for a much broader spectrum of jurists, academics and policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of tortious liability for harm caused by climate change has risen to some prominence in recent legal literature. However, except for a few U.S. cases, litigation in this area remains dormant in most jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in anticipation of the likelihood &ndash; and desirability &ndash; of such litigation, this ground-breaking study examines the extent to which a claim brought by a private, public, or quasi-public claimant against a private defendant (such as a producer of fossil fuels or major emitter of greenhouse gases) alleging climate change&ndash;related damage, and based on one or more causes of action under the English law of torts, can be pursued in the English Courts.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the circumstances and the prerequisites that must be met in order to construct a potentially successful case, Kaminskaite-Salters addresses the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the basis of a high-level review of the relevant scientific literature, what impacts is climate change expected to have on the human and natural environment?<\/li>\n<li>What goals would be served by climate change litigation?<\/li>\n<li>Under what circumstances would the English Courts accept jurisdiction in relation to a climate change claim?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent can existing tort law precedents &ndash; e.g., negligence, product liability, public nuisance &ndash; be used in climate change&ndash;related claims?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent does the existence of a regulatory framework limit or extinguish the liability of the defendants if they can show full compliance with the provisions of the relevant regulations?<\/li>\n<li>How would the current law of causation need to develop in order to overcome the difficulties inherent in ascribing certain forms of damage to climate change?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kaminskaite-Salters shows that litigation can become a significant means of compensating climate change victims, encouraging regulatory change, and facilitating a socioeconomic transition away from the fossil fuel economy.<\/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>Giedre Kaminskaite-Salters looks at how the issue of tortious liability for harm caused by climate change has risen to some prominence in recent legal literature &ndash; but how litigation in this area mostly remains dormant in most jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[17],"topic_area":[],"class_list":["post-4455","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-40-announcement"],"acf":{"downloads":{"ref_value":"field_52f16cc1a80f2","value":false,"type":"repeater","post_type":""},"profile_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f164b5189e9","value":["visiting-fellow-publishes-new-book-on-private-climate-change-lawsuits-under-english-law"],"type":"relationship","post_type":""},"spotlight":{"ref_value":"field_52f80896506d3","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"exclude_from_sync":{"ref_value":"field_560538b0e7350","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"rss_newsletter":{"ref_value":"field_54f5c2c1544d8","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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