Global trends in climate litigation | LSE Event

This event marks the launch of the Grantham Research Institute’s (GRI) 2024 Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation Policy Report. The growth rate of new climate cases may be starting to stabilise (at more than 200 new cases per year). However litigants continue to develop new types of cases and legal arguments, and we continue to see significant transnational exchange between countries. Activist groups and civil society organisations remain a major driving force behind the adoption of climate litigation as a tool to influence climate governance, with human rights arguments continuing to play a central role in cases seeking to hold governments and companies to account for failing to act on climate. In 2023 we also saw major developments in climate litigation involving forests and biodiversity, with new cases concerning the use of forest land grabs for carbon offsettingand others challenging the impacts of new ‘clean’ energy projects on biodiversity. Not all climate cases are filed to advance climate action, and 2023 also saw significant challenges to new climate policy and legislation filed by a range of stakeholders. This phenomenon risks exacerbating a widening gulf between what is expected of investors in the US and elsewhere particularly in Europe. Speakers: Catherine Higham Dr Joana Setzer Professor Harro van Asselt Cynthia Hanawalt Zaneta Sedilikova Chair: Professor Carmen Nuzzo #Climate #Events #London Full details/attend: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/06/... Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo https://www.pexels.com/photo/climate-... by Markus Spiske on https://www.pexels.com/license/ To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate.