Climate in the Courts

2 days ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

Co-published with One Earth NowThe climate crisis is the single greatest global public health threat of this century, health professionals say. Human rights experts warn it poses an unprecedented risk to human rights. For the world’s poor and most vulnerable people and communities on the frontlines of climate impacts like rising seas, it is an existential crisis threatening their very survival.

1 week ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

Courts in Canada will soon have to determine whether inadequate government climate policies amount to constitutional rights violations, as climate lawsuits brought by young Canadians against their governments move forward. In Ontario – Canada’s most populous province – a case brought by seven young applicants challenging their government’s weakened 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target is nearing resolution, and potentially on the verge of a precedent-setting victory.

1 week ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. By Dana Drugmand, Inside Climate NewsThe state of Hawaii has joined an intensifying legal battle by states and communities across the country to try to hold large fossil fuel firms accountable for the damaging climate impacts of their products.

1 month ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

Young climate activists in Europe and the United States who have faced setbacks in their lawsuits challenging government climate policies are continuing to turn to courts in renewed attempts at accountability, filing fresh cases and appeals as they seek to hold governments accountable for exacerbating the climate emergency. In Sweden, youth activists announced earlier this week that they are reviving their lawsuit against the Swedish government.

1 month ago | climateinthecourts.com | Dana Drugmand

The Dutch environmental NGO Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) formally filed a lawsuit today against ING, the largest bank in the Netherlands, challenging the bank’s climate policies. The lawsuit seeks to compel ING to align its financing activities with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.