One of the more interesting trends in climate litigation has been the child plaintiff seeking damages for future losses. Children have been increasingly involved in climate-based litigation all over the world, asserting the loss of future rights by failing to avoid the worst of climate impacts (ENVironnement JEUnesse v. Procureur General du Canada) and failing … Continue reading Future Fights: Children’s role in Climate Litigation
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Source: Wikipedia, UCC Factory in 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster#/media/File:Union_Carbide_pesticide_factory,_Bhopal,_India,_1985.jpg
Public Interest Litigation, and specifically climate litigation, has increasingly become a strategy of choice for forcing both government and corporations to reckon with the impacts of climate change. Since 2015, over 2,000 climate related cases have been filed around the world, with over a quarter of them being filed since 2020. Two thirds of these … Continue reading Public Interest Litigation – Lessons for the Future
Alisha Eastep, Esquire 
