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    Climate change litigation, also known as climate litigation, is an emerging body of environmental law using legal practice to set case law precedent to...
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    climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in...
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    Climate justice is an approach to climate action that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations...
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    Climate change in Pakistan is a major issue for the country. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change. As with the changing climate in South Asia...
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    Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v Switzerland (category Climate change litigation)
    Human Rights by failing to adequately address climate change. It is the first climate change litigation in which an international court has ruled that...
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  • Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the UN process for negotiating an agreement to limit dangerous climate change. Formally it is an international...
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    COVID-19 and a climate change litigation case, State of the Netherlands v. Urgenda Foundation, which created mandatory climate change mitigation through...
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    Accords, Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was adopted in 2015. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation...
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    Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions...
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    Urbanization and Climate Change". Climate Change Litigation. Archived from the original on 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023. "Young climate activists...
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    state's support of the fossil fuel industry had worsened the effects of climate change on their lives, thus depriving them of their constitutional rights....
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    State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation (category Climate change litigation)
    (in Dutch: De Staat der Nederlanden v. Stichting Urgenda) is climate change litigation heard by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands related to government...
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    Milieudefensie v Royal Dutch Shell (category Climate change litigation)
    the products it sells. It is considered to be the first major climate change litigation ruling against a corporation. Following the global adoption of...
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  • Litigation related to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become increasingly common in federal and state courts. Following adoption...
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    Juliana v. United States (category Climate change litigation)
    idea of "Atmospheric Trust Litigation" to take legal action to make governments responsible for actions related to climate change. Part of Our Children's...
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    Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an...
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  • from climate change". Finlaysons Lawyers. Retrieved 29 December 2021. "Sharma and others v. Minister for the Environment". Climate Change Litigation. Archived...
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    Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting...
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    important right for creating environmental legal precedents for climate change litigation and other environmental issues. An environmental rights amendment...
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    Climate change has been a critical issue in Australia since the beginning of the 21st century. Australia is becoming hotter and more prone to extreme heat...
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    The scientific community has been investigating the causes of climate change for decades. After thousands of studies, it came to a consensus, where it...
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    to climate change. Criminalization of ecocide under the Rome Statute has been proposed as a deterrent to corporations responsible for climate change, although...
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    In Poland, climate change has resulted in an increase of average temperature above 2 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels, which is higher...
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  • and adapt to the effects of global warming and climate change—during the year 2024. 19 March: "The climate crisis is the defining challenge that humanity...
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    Greenpeace v. Eni (category Climate change litigation)
    et al v Royal Dutch Shell court case, the lawsuit became the first climate litigation against a privately owned company in Italy. Greenpeace and ReCommon...
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    Climate change has resulted in an increase in temperature of 2.3 °C (2022) in Europe compared to pre-industrial levels. Europe is the fastest warming continent...
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  • further environmental litigation. Climate change litigation Lawyers for Climate Action NZ (external site) "About Us". Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc. Retrieved...
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  • 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021. "Commune de Grande-Synthe v.... - France - Climate Change Laws of the World". climate-laws.org. Retrieved 5 July 2021. v t e...
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  • Massachusetts v. EPA (category Climate change litigation)
    greenhouse gases (GHGs) that pollute the environment and contribute to climate change. Under the Clean Air Act, Massachusetts argued that the Environmental...
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  • businesses, and others. Hagens Berman has been involved in municipal climate change litigation, suing oil companies on behalf of cities. The firm has been subject...
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