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Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review

dc.contributorLaw Divisionen_US
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programmeen_US
dc.contributor.otherSabin Center for Climate Change Lawen_US
dc.contributor.otherBurger, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.otherTigre, Maria Antoniaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialGlobalen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-25T02:43:16Z
dc.date.available2023-07-25T02:43:16Z
dc.date.issued2023-07
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-4052-3en_US
dc.identifier.otherDEL/2550/NAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/43008
dc.descriptionClimate litigation represents a frontier solution to change the dynamics of the fight against climate change. This Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review shows that people are increasingly turning to the courts to combat the climate crisis. As of December 2022, there have been 2,180 climate- related cases filed in 65 jurisdictions including international and regional courts, tribunals, quasi-judicial bodies, or other adjudicatory bodies, such as Special Procedures at the United Nations and arbitration tribunals. This represents a steady increase from 884 cases in 2017 and 1,550 cases in 2020. Children and youth, women’s groups, local communities, and Indigenous Peoples, among others, are taking a prominent role in bringing these cases and driving climate change governance reform in more and more countries around the world. This report, which updates previous United Nations Environment Programme reports published in 2017 and 2020, provides an overview of the current state of climate change litigation and an update of global climate change litigation trends. It provides judges, lawyers, advocates, policymakers, researchers, environmental defenders, climate activists, human rights activists (including women’s rights activists), NGOs, businesses and the international community at large with an essential resource to understand the current state of global climate litigation, including descriptions of the key issues that courts have faced in the course of climate change cases. This report further demonstrates the importance of an environmental rule of law in combating the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Access to justice enables the protection of environmental law and human rights and promotes accountability in public institutions. The report was launched in conjunction with the anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (A/RES/76/300), as the majority of cases brought before the courts demonstrate concrete links between human rights and climate change. The UNGA resolution, which recognises that climate change impacts have negative implications on the enjoyment of all human rights, is likely to drive further action on climate change in the future.en_US
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dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherUnited Nations Environment Programmeen_US
dc.relationEnvironmental Rule of Law: First Global Reporten_US
dc.relationGlobal Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Reviewen_US
dc.relationThe Status of Climate Change Litigation: A Global Reviewen_US
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectCLIMATE REGULATIONen_US
dc.subjectCLIMATEen_US
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGEen_US
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEen_US
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCEen_US
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENTen_US
dc.subjectFOSSIL FUELSen_US
dc.titleGlobal Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Reviewen_US
dc.typePublicationsen_US
dc.typeReports, Books and Bookletsen_US
wd.topicsClimate Actionen_US
wd.topicsEnvironmental Governanceen_US
dc.relation.TableOfContentsPart 1: The importance of climate change litigationen_US
dc.relation.TableOfContentsPart 2: Overview of global climate litigationen_US
dc.relation.TableOfContentsPart 3: The state of climate change litigationen_US
dc.relation.TableOfContentsPart 4: The state of climate change litigation – future directionsen_US
wd.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.59117/20.500.11822/43008


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