"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/

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/

“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

🇪🇺 ⚖️ 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/

📢 🌐 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

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

Check out our Winter 2022 Climate Attribution #Newsletter, featuring:

⚖ New #climatecases that lean on #attributionscience
🔎 Recent Additions to our Climate Attribution Database we developed with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
https://lnkd.in/dtY-adiS

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