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Climate Litigation
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Climate Law Blog
New Zealand Legislates Away Climate Tort, Part I: Smith v Fonterra and the Global Backlash Against Climate Litigation
This is the second of three consecutive posts on corporate climate accountability. Yesterday’s post examined the Paris Judicial Court’s June 2026 ruling in Notre Affaire à Tous et al. v. TotalEnergies…
Climate Law Blog
Sabin Center Releases Summary Report for the Second Conference on Attribution Science and Climate Law
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School have published the summary report for the Second Conference on Attribution Science and Climate Law, held at Columbia University on…
Verfassungsblog
Privilegierte Klimaschädiger
Die Klimakrise und ihre verheerenden Auswirkungen auf Menschen und Umwelt sind im historischen Hitzesommer 2026 in Europa so spürbar wie selten. Trotzdem wird Klimaschutz derzeit nicht großgeschrieben – insbesondere nicht…
Verfassungsblog
A Cyclical, Foreseeable, Worsening Threat
By Didac Amat
During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, approximately 489,000 heat-related deaths occurred yearly. Europe is no exception. Thousands of deaths have been reported in the continent just in…
Climate Law Blog
The Role of Attribution Science in Climate Litigation
The Sabin Center maintains an open access database that attempts to post all of the climate change cases around the world. It has more than 3600 cases in 62 different…
Verfassungsblog
The BMW and Mercedes Climate Cases
The Bundesgerichtshof – Germany’s highest court of civil jurisdiction – has handed down its first ruling on private climate liability and dismissed the widely discussed lawsuits against BMW and Mercedes.…
Climate Law Blog
Can Europe’s Largest Emitters Be Sanctioned for Climate Harm?
One of the most fundamental questions in climate justice is also one of the most difficult to answer: how can the climate impacts of carbon dioxide emissions generated in one…
Climate Law Blog
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Fossil Fuel Companies’ Appeal in Boulder Climate Case but Asks for Briefing on Threshold Jurisdiction Questions
“Supreme Court” by Mark Fischer, CC BY-SA 2.0 Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court granted three fossil fuel companies’ petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the Colorado Supreme…
Climate Law Blog
Data Center Litigation – An Emerging Frontier for Climate Litigation?
By Eoin Jackson and Emily Bradeen
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and digital services has brought renewed attention to the physical infrastructure underpinning the digital economy: data centers. While critical to the…
ACOEL Blogs & Resources
Can the Administration Persuade States Not to Bring Climate Litigation?
By Seth Jaffe
posted on February 11, 2026 by Seth Jaffe United States Capitol Building in Washington DC public building Last year, the United States sued the State of Michigan, seeking a preemptive…