Compendium of Key Climate Change Jurisprudence
Climate litigation
IGSD’s jurisprudence compendium of key climate cases analyzes 29 climate cases from 22 jurisdictions worldwide.
These cases were selected to highlight the following important themes in global climate change jurisprudence.
- Supervision and accountability of state and non-state actors in addressing climate change
- Use and importance of climate science
- Human rights and climate change
- States’ obligations under international treaties to address climate change
- Judicial development and evolution of legal principles to address climate change
- Access to justice and legal standing to bring climate cases
