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New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2026) Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jun 22, 2026) Jamaican beach access campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of coast, theguardian.com (Jun 14, 2026) — Activists challenge colonial-era law, demand ‘free, legal, unfettered, forever rights’ to use beaches. ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours' Opening of a trial for planned obsolescence against Epson: a historic first step, repair.eu (Jun 08, 2026) Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry, theguardian.com (May 20, 2026) Judge rejects Trump administration bid to block Hawaii climate lawsuit, staradvertiser.com (Apr 15, 2026) Judge Rejects Trump Administration’s Plan to End NYC Congestion Pricing, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 04, 2026) How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 22, 2026) Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 19, 2026) Environmental defenders labeled ‘terrorists’ for bringing renewable power to Philippine communities, globalvoices.org/ (Feb 19, 2026) These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters, theguardian.com (Feb 08, 2026) Michigan accuses big oil of being ‘cartel’ that fuels climate crisis and high energy costs, theguardian.com (Feb 05, 2026) — In first-of-its-kind complaint, state accused four fossil fuel majors and US oil lobbying group of climate disinformation From environmental threat to international crime: why ecocide is now a global security issue, econews.global (Feb 05, 2026) Pakistan seeks justice for environmental harm through climate litigation, globalvoices.org (Jan 11, 2026) Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first, theguardian.com (Dec 29, 2025) Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2025) Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impacts of fossil fuels, BBC News (Dec 10, 2025) Montana youth activists who won landmark climate case push for court enforcement, theguardian.com (Dec 10, 2025) Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 05, 2025) After landmark climate win, lawyer hopes for a ‘new legal order’ to protect Indigenous rights, theguardian.com (Nov 28, 2025) Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025) COP30 host Brazil creates 10 new Indigenous territories, BBC News (Nov 18, 2025) A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 18, 2025) — The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say. Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 17, 2025) Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 03, 2025) Nearly two dozen states sue to stop US president ending $7bn solar grant program, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2025) Taking the fight to court: challenging Minister Murray Watt’s approval of the North West Shelf extension, acf.org.au (Oct 13, 2025) ‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today, unep.org (Oct 03, 2025) — While cases from the Global South still represent less than 10 per cent in 2025, their share is steadily growing. The Landmark Settlement That Could Get Plastic Pellet Pollution Out of America’s Rivers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 22, 2025) The Pacific won a stunning climate victory at the International Court of Justice. What's next?, abc.net.au (Sep 13, 2025) Study links world’s top oil and gas firms to 200 ‘more intense’ heatwaves, carbonbrief.org (Sep 10, 2025) Rhode Island and Connecticut sue over Trump administration’s wind farm halt, theguardian.com (Sep 04, 2025) The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 24, 2025) Young climate activists in Wisconsin sue state over pro-fossil fuel policies, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2025) — Lawsuit brought by two non-profit law firms have had previous wins in Montana and Wisconsin First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program, theguardian.com (Aug 05, 2025) Climate change: new method can more accurately attribute environmental harm to individual polluters, theconversation.com (Aug 01, 2025) Honolulu's lawsuit against fossil fuel companies leads climate change legal fight, independent.co.uk (Jul 29, 2025) ‘Significant legal breakthrough’ as NSW court blocks state’s largest coal expansion over emissions, theguardian.com (Jul 24, 2025) — “Today’s decision has broad-ranging implications for all new and expanded fossil fuel projects in NSW. No longer can the NSW government say that climate impacts felt by local communities in NSW are divorced from the continued production of coal and gas in the state,” Elaine Johnson Nations who fail to curb fossil fuels could be ordered to pay reparations, top UN court rules, theguardian.com (Jul 23, 2025) Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change, BBC News (Jul 23, 2025) How young people have taken climate justice to the world’s international courts, theconversation.com (Jul 21, 2025) Top Latin American court upholds right to “healthy climate”, urges fossil fuel control, climatechangenews.com (Jul 04, 2025) Client Advocates Are Quietly Reshaping Criminal Defense, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 23, 2025) One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change, theconversation.com (May 30, 2025) Trump Executive Orders Violate Young People’s Rights to a Stable Climate, a Lawsuit Alleges, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025) All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet?, theguardian.com (Apr 08, 2025) The climate movement needs lawyers. This ‘pro bono bootcamp’ helps connect the dots., grist.org (Apr 02, 2025) Christians worldwide urged to take legal action on climate crisis, theguardian.com (Mar 24, 2025) Greenpeace’s $660m damages ruling a ‘wake-up call’ to climate movement, climatechangenews.com (Mar 21, 2025) Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 13, 2025) Many cities are banning ads for airlines, SUVs and fossil fuels – and yours could be next, theconversation.com (Mar 10, 2025) The legal tussle to hold corporate polluters accountable for climate loss and damage, the-wave.net (Mar 05, 2025) One place to see all the ecological legal cases across the planet [Eco-Jurisprudence Monitor], Daily Alternative (Feb 02, 2025) A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 17, 2025) A decade on, six things the world can learn from Wales’ innovative future generations law, theconversation.com (Jan 06, 2025) — Includes "Engage all stakeholders early and effectively" Montana top court upholds landmark youth climate ruling, BBC News (Dec 19, 2024) A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 05, 2024) Small North Carolina town sues energy ‘Goliath’ in historic climate action, theguardian.com (Dec 04, 2024) Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told, theguardian.com (Dec 02, 2024) DRC Joins Pacific Island Nations In Call For An International Crime Of Ecocide, stopecocide.earth (Oct 31, 2024) I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action, Margaret Reid, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2024) ‘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) Celebrities add voices to outcry over severity of Just Stop Oil sentences, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 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) 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) German government must amend climate plan, court rules, dw.com (May 16, 2024) Activists sue Russia over ‘weak’ climate policy, theguardian.com (May 16, 2024) Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.com (Apr 30, 2024) Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 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) 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) ‘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) Philippine congress files world’s first climate accountability bill, greenpeace.org (Nov 23, 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) 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) local information and news can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
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