Climate Change Legal Action

Climate change litigation, also known as climate litigation, is an emerging body of environmental law using legal practice to set case law precedent to ...

Climate Change Litigation Databases - Sabin Center for Climate ...

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law provides two comprehensive databases of climate change caselaw - US Climate Change Litigation and Global Climate Change ...

The legal battles changing the course of climate change - BBC

Globally, 55% of cases have had a climate-positive ruling, according to the LSE's latest annual report which studies 549 lawsuits outside the US ...

U.S. Climate Change Litigation

U.S. Climate Change Litigation · Federal Statutory Claims · Clean Air Act[219 Cases] · Constitutional Claims · Commerce Clause[29 Cases] · State Law Claims · Common ...

Climate Lawsuits Are On The Rise. This Is What They're Based On.

Milieudefensie v. Royal Dutch Shell, brought by Dutch Friends of the Earth, is one of the most high-profile climate lawsuits based on human ...

Climate litigation more than doubles in five years, now a key tool in ...

The total number of climate change cases has more than doubled since a first report on the issue, from 884 in 2017 to 2,180 in 2022. While most ...

Climate Lawsuits Are Exploding. Are Homicide Charges Next?

Its most well-known case is Juliana v. United States, in which 21 young people argue that the government violated their constitutional rights by ...

Yale Experts Explain Climate Lawsuits

But when people talk about climate change lawsuits, they usually mean efforts to use the litigation process to spur climate mitigation actions ...

Do climate lawsuits lead to action? Researchers assess their impact

But does legal action relating to climate change make a difference to nations' and corporations' actions? Litigation is spurring on governments ...

Young people ask US Supreme Court to revive climate change lawsuit

Twenty-one young people on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a novel lawsuit claiming the U.S. government's energy policies ...

How can the law fight climate change? | ClientEarth

People or organisations can use climate litigation – through court cases, legal or regulatory complaints, and other methods – to push for greater ambition on ...

Who is legally responsible for climate harms? The world's top court ...

The International Court of Justice will clarify states' legal responsibility for impacts of climate change. Although non-binding, its opinion will matter for ...

Climate Change & Environment Supreme Court Cases

Below is a selection of Supreme Court cases involving climate change and the environment, arranged from newest to oldest.

September 2024 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Each month, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collects and summarizes developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to ...

What is climate change litigation? - Grantham Research Institute on ...

The first wave began in the 1980s in Australia and the US , largely consisting of challenges to administrative processes that had failed to ...

Climate Litigation Has Exploded, but Is it Making a Difference?

Climate Change is sparking a litigation boom across the globe—both to advance and delay action on climate change—with nearly 70 percent of ...

Why 2024 will be a crucial year for climate litigation - The Guardian

New legal theories are also gaining steam. In recent years, governments have alleged that fossil fuel companies have broken racketeering laws by ...

“This is about our human rights:” U.S. youths win landmark climate ...

... global effort to hold governments accountable for climate harm through judicial process ... Climate change and the environment ...

Big Oil in Court - The latest trends in climate litigation against fossil ...

The use of courts and legal mechanisms to achieve progress on addressing climate change has grown significantly since the Paris Agreement was ...

Here's how legal action is helping tackle the climate crisis

Climate litigation is also giving a voice to vulnerable groups who are being hard hit by climate change. The report says that, globally, 34 ...

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Climate change litigation

Climate change litigation, also known as climate litigation, is an emerging body of environmental law using legal practice to set case law precedent to further climate change mitigation efforts from public institutions, such as governments and companies.