Document Type
Report
Publication Date
1-2025
Abstract
Drawing from the jurisdictions covered in the Sabin Center's United States (U.S.) and Global Climate Litigation databases, this report offers insights into key developments, emerging themes, evolving legal strategies, and the pulse of climate litigation in 2024. The report identifies eight major thematic areas of climate litigation, namely (i) climate change in international and regional courts and tribunals, (ii) constitutional and human rights cases, (iii) GHG emissions in EIAs, (iv) factoring climate impacts and obligations into government decision-making, (v) non-compliance with climate commitments, (vi) climate displacement, (vii) greenwashing and climate-washing cases, and (viii) nuisance and other claims against major emitters.
Disciplines
Comparative and Foreign Law | Courts | Environmental Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Maria Antonia Tigre and Margaret Barry, Climate Change in the Courts: A 2024 Retrospective (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, January 2025)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climate_change/240
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