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- ‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges, theguardian.com (Sep 27, 2024)
- “Attorney General Bonta is leading the way to corporate accountability and a cleaner and healthier world", news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2024) — "This lawsuit will set an invaluable precedent for others to follow,” Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics
- The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass legislation making it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — this includes petrol and diesel, aviation and cruise ships
- South Korea’s climate law violates rights of future generations, court rules, theguardian.com (Aug 29, 2024)
- Campaigners sue EU over ‘grossly inadequate’ 2030 climate targets, theguardian.com (Aug 27, 2024)
- Fighting for the Native Forest of the Gran Chaco in Argentina, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 06, 2024)
- Millions of Californians live near oil and gas wells that are in the path of wildfires, latimes.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison, Chris Packham and Dale Vince, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024) — These protesters are shouting ‘fire’ while the world burns. A society that locks them up cannot be called democratic
- A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024)
- Celebrities add voices to outcry over severity of Just Stop Oil sentences, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024)
- Climate in the courtroom: all sides are using ‘green lawfare’, and it’s good for democracy, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
- ‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2024)
- ‘Groundbreaking’: How children in Hawaii won landmark climate case, aljazeera.com (Jun 21, 2024)
- ‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages, theguardian.com (May 31, 2024)
- Young Alaskans sue state over fossil fuel project they claim violates their rights, theguardian.com (May 23, 2024)
- States have legal duty to cut greenhouse emissions, says top maritime court, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024)
- Climate change is a human rights issue, theconversation.com (May 20, 2024)
- South African communities vs Shell: high court victories show that cultural beliefs and practices count in climate cases, theconversation.com (May 18, 2024)
- Activists sue Russia over ‘weak’ climate policy, theguardian.com (May 16, 2024)
- German government must amend climate plan, court rules, dw.com (May 16, 2024)
- Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- Policy experts hail Supreme Court ruling on climate change but stress that India's transition to clean energy to fight climate change must not lead to environmental injustices., energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 29, 2024)
- Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimes, theguardian.com (Mar 26, 2024)
- The Māori climate activist breaking legal barriers to bring corporate giants to court, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)
- European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- When governments fund fossil fuels, it’s time to take them to court, climatechangenews.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- One of NZ’s most contentious climate cases is moving forward. And the world is watching, theconversation.com (Feb 12, 2024)
- Norway has made a vital climate leap. This is how Britain can do the same, Tessa Khan, theguardian.com (Jan 31, 2024)
- Judge Sends Landmark Youth Climate Case to Trial, theenergymix.com (Jan 01, 2024)
2023[edit | edit source]
- ‘We have a responsibility’: the older women suing Switzerland to demand climate action, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- Ireland could give nature constitutional rights, BBC News (Dec 16, 2023)
- California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Belgian court orders 55% emissions cut from 1990 levels, theguardian.com (Dec 01, 2023)
- A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case, theconversation.com (Nov 27, 2023)
- EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’, theguardian.com (Nov 17, 2023)
- Stop locking young people out of legal process in climate cases, say experts, theguardian.com (Oct 26, 2023)
- Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters, desmog.com (Sep 28, 2023)
- California sues oil companies claiming they downplayed the risk of fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2023)
- Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2023)
- Our environmental laws are failing us in the face of the climate crisis, Tim Flannery, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2023)
- Youth wins climate case against U.S. state of Montana in first-of-its-kind legal ruling, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2023) — by Liz Kimbrough
- Many global corporations will soon have to police up and down their supply chains as EU human rights ‘due diligence’ law nears enactment, theconversation.com (Aug 03, 2023)
- Landmark court win upholds protection for Gliders and Victoria’s forests, eastgippsland.net.au (Jun 27, 2023)
- Court decision in youth climate lawsuit against Ontario government ignites hope, The Conversation (Jun 20, 2023)
- ‘My life and my home’: young people start to testify at historic US climate trial, The Guardian (Jun 13, 2023) — The plaintiffs note that Montana’s constitution pledges a healthy environment ‘for present and future generations’
- ‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis, The Guardian (Jun 07, 2023)
- ‘Like a dam breaking’: experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advance, The Guardian (Apr 25, 2023)
- Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2023) — by Liz Kimbrough
- Tiny island nation takes climate change to The Hague, axios.com (Mar 24, 2023)
- The Maasai community that took on the Tanzanian government – and won, Positive News (Jan 11, 2023)
- Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation, The Guardian (Jan 04, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- Biodiversity: one way to help countries stick to their commitments to restore nature, The Conversation (Dec 20, 2022)
- ‘This case has made legal history’: young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine, The Conversation (Nov 25, 2022)
- Australia violated the rights of Torres Strait Islanders by failing to act on climate change, the UN says. Here’s what that means, The Conversation (Sep 26, 2022)
- ‘One of the most progressive and environmentally conscious legal texts on the planet’: Chile’s proposed constitution and its lessons for Australia, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
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