Overview of Climate Change Litigation. (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gerrard, Michael
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting. Volume 113(2019)
• Page Start: 194
• Page End: 197
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: International law -- Congresses -- Periodicals; Congresses; 341.05
• DOI: 10.1017/amp.2019.183
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0272-5037

Abstract

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.