Sabin CenterAug 10, 2023
"Litigation is increasingly being used to compel countries, municipalities, and companies to reduce their carbon emissions...says a new report by Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the UN Environment Programme. ". Find out what these #climatecases are based on & the future of #climatelitigation: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/08/09/climate-lawsuits-are-on-the-rise-this-is-what-theyre-based-on/
Climate Lawsuits Are On The Rise. This Is What They're Based On.

A new report from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the United Nations says that climate litigation has more than doubled in the last five years, and is expected to continue to increase.

State of the Planet
Sabin CenterJul 27, 2023
The report is based on a review of #climatecases collected up to December 31, 2022 by the @SabinCenter’s #ClimateChange Litigation databases:
🇺🇸 Climate Change Litigation:
http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/
🌎 Global Climate Change Litigation:
http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/
U.S. Climate Change Litigation - Climate Change Litigation

Cases in the U.S. database are organized by type of claim and may be filtered by the principal laws they address, their filing years, and their jurisdictions. The database is also searchable by keyword. In many cases, the database includes links to decisions, complaints, motions, and other administrative and litigation documents. To browse by claim […]

Climate Change Litigation
Sabin CenterApr 25, 2023
“If the cases move towards discovery and trial, the governments would aim to gather more evidence that fossil fuel companies knew that their products would cause climate disasters, deceptively marketed them as safe, and as a result, communities have been on the hook for billions in repairs,” said our climate law fellow Korey Silverman-Roait: https://www.eenews.net/articles/supreme-court-unlocks-climate-cases-by-rejecting-oil-industry-bid/ #SupremeCourt #BigOil #climatecases
Supreme Court unlocks climate cases by rejecting oil industry bid

The high court's decision not to intervene in climate litigation could end a yearslong delay that prevented the lawsuits from being heard on their merits.

E&E News
Sabin CenterMar 20, 2023
🇪🇺 ⚖️ Antoine De Spiegeleir & Anais Brucher examine how the European Court of #HumanRights considers claims focused on future circumstances, incl. the #rights of present & #futuregenerations& how these could be analyzed by the Court in pending #climatecases: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/03/20/climate-docket-and-the-future-in-the-case-law-of-the-european-court-of-human-rights/
Climate Docket and the Future in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights - Climate Law Blog

Adjudication typically looks backward: it runs after the facts. This is also true for human rights adjudication and the activity of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR was built on the idea that individuals who suffered (past tense) or suffer (present tense) violations of the rights and freedoms guaranteed in the European […]

Climate Law Blog
Sabin CenterFeb 13, 2023

📢 🌐 On 3/23, The Sabin Center's Peer Review Network on Global #ClimateLitigation is hosting a half-day workshop, in which speakers will give an overview of the "Climate Docket" of the European Court of Human Rights & a discussion of the 3 #climatecases to be heard by the Court at the end of March.

🔗 More info & how to register here: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/events/climate-docket-european-court-human-rights

The Climate Docket at the European Court of Human Rights | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Show threadSabin CenterFeb 3, 2023

Featured #climatecases:
1️⃣ 🇺🇸California AG dropped challenge to Lake County Project after developer agreed to hashtag#GHG reduction measures and steps to address #widlfirerisk
2️⃣ Chile 🇨🇱 & Colombia 🇨🇴 filed request for #advisoryopinion from IACtHR on scope of state obligations for responding to hashtag#climateemergency

Full hashtag#climatelitigation update is available here:
https://climate.law.columbia.edu/news/february-2023-updates-climate-case-charts

February 2023 Updates to the Climate Case Charts | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law