Climate Litigation

While emerging in the 2000s in the U.S., climate litigation has become a global phenomenon spanning across the five continents. Through climate lawsuits, plaintiffs seek to enforce stricter climate protection measures by states and companies. Its fast development makes climate litigation as challenging to capture in one definition, as compelling to observe and discuss it. 

Our research on climate litigation focuses on: 

• comparative strategic climate litigation
• human rights-based litigation
• socio-legal aspects of climate litigation (e.g. governance, impacts)
• comparative research on global North-South 
• climate litigation & justice
• climate litigation & science