Climate Change Litigation Cases in Context

This book provides a timely and detailed analysis of key climate change cases in domestic courts across the globe, examining the procedural, evidentiary, legal, and strategic dimensions of the complex climate governance landscape. It reveals how, as the threats of climate change grow and as policy fails to respond, individuals and groups have increasingly been turning to national courts to seek relief and clarity through litigation.

Chapters:

The climate governance tightrope: novel strategies and the role of courts in climate changeMathur v Ontario: youth-led constitutional challenge to government climate policy lights the path to future recognition of climate rights in CanadaLliuya v RWE: introducing polluter pays via transnational climate litigation?Common law at the coal face: Smith v Fonterra and othersCentre for Oil Pollution Watch (COPW) v Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC): locus standi and the emerging trends in climate litigation in NigeriaHuman rights as procedural due process in climate mitigation policies: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v. SwitzerlandA constitutional duty to deploy climate finance: PSB et al vBrazil (Climate Fund)Held v Montana: climate science takes the standMisdzi Yikh v Canada: indigenizing rights-based climate litigationPromoting climate litigation via industrial law and policy? Chinese climate litigation in contextWhen corporate and financial law goes green: Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Mercer Superannuation (Australia) LimitedThreatened birds meet creative judges: India’s climatelitigation takes flight in MK Ranjitsinh and Others v Union ofIndia and Others