Alogna Ivano, Bakker Christine, Gauci Jean-Pierre (eds.) Climate Change Litigation: Global Perpectives

Leiden, Boston; The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2021. — 567 p. — ISBN 978-90-04-44760-8.This ground-breaking volume provides analyses from experts around the globe on the part played by national and international law, through legislation and the courts, in advancing efforts to tackle climate change, and what needs to be done in the future. Published under the auspices of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), the volume builds on an event convened at BIICL in 2020, which brought together academics, legal practitioners and NGO representatives. The volume offers not only the insights from that event, but also additional materials, sollicited to offer the reader a more complete picture of how climate change litigation is evolving in a global perspective, highlighting both opportunities, and constraints.Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives—An Introduction
Climate Change Litigation: Comparative Perspectives
Climate Change Litigation in the United States:High Volume of Cases, Mostly About Statutes
Climate Change Litigation in AustraliaLaw and Practice in the Sunburnt Country
Climate Change Litigation in the United Kingdom: Planning, Energy and Protest
Climate Change Litigation in India and Pakistan: Analyzing Opportunities and Challenges
Climate Change Litigation in France: New Perspectives and Trends
Climate Change Litigation in Brazil: Will Green Courts Become Greener?
Climate Change Litigation in South Africa: Firmly Out of the Starting Blocks
Climate Change Litigation in the Netherlands: The Urgenda Case and Beyond
Prospects for Climate Change Litigation in Russia
Prospects for Climate Change Litigation in China Chen Zhou and Tianba Qin
Climate Change Litigation:!Regional and International Perspectives
Climate Change Litigation in Africa:A Multi- Level Perspective
Climate Change Litigation in European Regional Courts:Jumping Procedural Hurdles to Hold States to Account?
Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue: Litigating Climate Change in
the Inter- American System of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Intergenerational Climate Change Litigation: The First Climate Communication to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Inter- State Climate Change Litigation: ‘Neither a Chimera nor a Panacea’
Bringing Climate Change before the International Court of Justice: Prospects for Contentious Cases and Advisory Opinions
Litigation under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Opportunities to Support and Supplement the Climate Change
Regime
Trade and Climate Disputes before the wto: Blocking or Driving Climate Action?
International Arbitration of Climate- Related Disputes: Prospects for
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Climate Change Litigation before the International Criminal Court:!Prospects in Theory and PracticeAppendixes
Table of Cases
Table of International Instruments and National Legislation