Climate change litigation: global perspectives

"This ground-breaking volume provides analyses from experts around the globe on the part played by national and international law, through legislation and the courts, in advancing efforts to tackle climate change, and what needs to be done in the future. Published under the auspices of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), the volume builds on an event convened at BIICL, which brought together academics, legal practitioners and NGO representatives. The volume offers not only the insights from that event, but also additional materials, sollicited to offer the reader a more complete picture of how climate change litigation is evolving in a global perspective, highlighting both opportunities, and constraints. The contributions span a wide range of national jurisdictions with examples from both the Global South and the Global North. In addition, the potentialities and limitations for climate change-related cases at the regional and international levels are addressed, ranging from regional human rights courts and United Nations Treaty Bodies to the International Court of Justice, the World Trade Organization, the International Criminal Court and international arbitration. The volume will be of interest to legal scholars and legal practitioners, policy makers as well as activists and all those who are seeking to achieve change for the better in this field"--

Climate change litigation in the United States high volume of cases, mostly about statutes / Michael B. Gerrard -- Climate change litigation in Australia law and practice in the sunburnt country / Laura Schuijers and Margaret A. Young -- Climate change litigation in the United Kingdom planning, energy and protest / Nigel Pleming and Ruth Keating -- Litigating climate change in India and Pakistan analysing opportunities and challenges / Birsha Ohdedar -- Climate change litigation in France new perspectives and trends / Marta Torre-Schaub -- Climate change litigation in Brazil will green courts become greener? / Joana Setzer, Guilherme J. S. Leal and Caio Borges -- Climate change litigation in South Africa firmly out of the starting blocks / Tracy-Lynn Field -- Climate litigation in the Netherlands the Urgenda Case and beyond / Christine Bakker -- Prospects for climate change litigation in Russia / Anatoly Yakovlevich Kapustin -- Prospects for climate change litigation in China / Zhou Chen and Qin Tianbao -- Climate change litigation in Africa a multi-level perspective / Sam Adelman -- Climate change litigation in European courts jumping procedural hurdles to hold states to account?…