ClimLaw: Graz is an implementing partner in the project prestigious CLIMPACT Project, which is hosted by the University of Bari, Italy. ClimLaw: Graz congratulates Prof. Pamela Martino and Dr. Giuseppe Naglieri for their successful application. CLIMPAC stands for Charting the Landscape of Climate Litigation Impacts: An Interdisciplinary Framework and Open Access Database — is funded by a Starting Grant under the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS 3, D.D. n. 1802 del 21 novembre 2024, ERC Sector SH2), awarded by MUR — Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca. Duration: 48 months. Budget: 1,000,000 Euro. Official launch: 4 May 2026.
CLIMPACT is the first large-scale, global, empirical research effort to systematically measure and evaluate the impacts of climate litigation. Drawing on a global dataset of approximately 500 cases — around twenty per cent of the global climate litigation landscape — the project traces how climate lawsuits reshape the legal, social, and economic conditions within which the climate transition unfolds: the evolution of judicial doctrine on state and corporate climate obligations, changes in climate legislation and regulatory frameworks, the refinement of administrative procedures and authorisation mechanisms, the transformation of policy planning and implementation, the strengthening of civil society networks and advocacy capabilities, shifts in media coverage and public discourse on climate responsibilities, the role of scientific evidence in public debate and decision-making, corporate governance and climate risk disclosure, investment decisions and emissions trajectories, and market responses to climate-related risks.
ClimLaw: Graz is also represented in the Scientific and Advisory Board (SAB) of CLIMPACT, which is composed of the following nineteen members:
– Dr. Ivano Alogna, BIICL
– Prof. Kim Bouwer, Durham University
– Dr. Michael Burger, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
– Prof. Michele Carducci, Università del Salento
– Prof. Danielle De Andrade Moreira, PUC-Rio
– Prof. Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena
– Prof. Jolene Lin, National University of Singapore
– Prof. Benoit Mayer, University of Reading
– Prof. Phillip Paiement, Tilburg University
– Prof. Attilio Pisanò, Università del Salento
– Prof. Oliver Ruppel, University of Graz / Stellenbosch University
– Prof. Annalisa Savaresi, University of Eastern Finland
– Prof. Joana Setzer, Grantham Research Institute, LSE
– Prof. Francesco Sindico, University of Strathclyde
– Prof. Maria Antonia Tigre, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
– Prof. Marta Torre-Schaub, CNRS – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
– Prof. Harro van Asselt, University of Cambridge
– Prof. Lisa Vanhala, University College London
– Prof. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, University of Amsterdam