Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/amp.2019.183
Abstract
Climate change litigation is a global phenomenon. According to a database maintained by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, as of February 4, 2019 a total of 1,297 climate cases had been filed in courts or other tribunals worldwide. Of these, 1,009 — 78 percent — were from the United States, Australia was a distant second, with ninety-eight, followed by the United Kingdom with forty-seven. No other country had as many as twenty. The cases were filed in twenty-nine countries and six international tribunals, led by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which had forty-one.
Disciplines
Environmental Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Michael B. Gerrard,
Overview of Climate Change Litigation,
113
Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc.
194
(2019).
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https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3742
Comments
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