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This book provides a timely and detailed analysis of key climate change cases in domestic courts across the globe, examining the procedural, evidentiary, legal, and strategic dimensions of the complex climate governance landscape. It reveals how, as the threats of climate change grow and as policy fails to respond, individuals and groups have increasingly been turning to national courts to seek relief and clarity through litigation.

Chapters:

  1. The climate governance tightrope: novel strategies and the role of courts in climate change
  2. Mathur v Ontario: youth-led constitutional challenge to government climate policy lights the path to future recognition of climate rights in Canada
  3. Lliuya v RWE: introducing polluter pays via transnational climate litigation?
  4. Common law at the coal face: Smith v Fonterra and others
  5. Centre for Oil Pollution Watch (COPW) v Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC): locus standi and the emerging trends in climate litigation in Nigeria
  6. Human rights as procedural due process in climate mitigation policies: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v. Switzerland
  7. A constitutional duty to deploy climate finance: PSB et al v
    Brazil (Climate Fund)
  8. Held v Montana: climate science takes the stand
  9. Misdzi Yikh v Canada: indigenizing rights-based climate litigation
  10. Promoting climate litigation via industrial law and policy? Chinese climate litigation in context
  11. When corporate and financial law goes green: Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Mercer Superannuation (Australia) Limited
  12. Threatened birds meet creative judges: India’s climate
    litigation takes flight in MK Ranjitsinh and Others v Union of
    India and Others     

ISBN

9781035343188

Publication Date

4-2026

Publisher

Edward Elgar

Keywords

climate change litigation, climate change, climate governance, climate change policy, domestic courts, national courts

Disciplines

Courts | Environmental Law

Comments

This is an open access work distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
license. Without limiting the author’s and publisher’s exclusive rights, any unauthorised use of this publication to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is expressly prohibited.

Climate Change Litigation Cases in Context

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