Research Handbook on Climate Change Litigation

Edited by Francesco Sindico, Professor of International Environmental Law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, Kate McKenzie, CEO, The Climate Change Legal Initiative (C²LI), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Gastón Medici-Colombo, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Barcelona, Spain and Lennart Wegener, PhD Researcher, University of Göttingen, Germany

Contents

Foreword xii
Christina Voigt
1 Climate change litigation: one definition to rule them all…? 1
Kate McKenzie, Gastón Medici-Colombo, Lennart Wegener and Francesco Sindico
PART I CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION JOURNEY IN NATIONAL LAW
2 The crucial role of strategic climate litigation 18
Amy Rose, Denitsa Mladenova and Vesselina Newman
3 Breaking the mould in the strategic design and implementation of
climate litigation 37
Kristin Casper, Louise Fournier, Richard Harvey, Michelle Jonker-Argueta,
Kasey Valente and Amrekha Sharma
4 Climate litigation: access to judicial review in national courts 57
Bolanle Erinosho
5 Systemic climate change litigation 77
Sarah Mead, Filippo P. Fantozzi and Lucy Maxwell
6 Actions and grounds of project-focused climate change litigation 99
Brian J. Preston
7 Breaking new ground in private climate litigation 123
Geetanjali Ganguly
8 Climate activism and criminal litigation: whose case is it anyway? 145
Grace Nosek and Catherine Higham
9 Climate science and litigation 164
Jessica Wentz
10 Climate change litigation and the separation of powers: effective legal
protection as the ultimate yardstick? 184
Hendrik Schoukens
11 The transnational exchange of law through climate change litigation 207
Natasha Affolder and Godwin E. K. Dzah
12 Remedies and remedial dynamics in climate change litigation:
opportunities and challenges 229
Marta Torre-Schaub
13 The effectiveness of climate change litigation 245
Joana Setzer, Nicola Silbert and Lisa Vanhala
PART II CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION JOURNEY IN
INTERNATIONAL LAW
14 Climate change and the International Court of Justice 264
Edgardo Sobenes and Francesco Sindico
15 Potential climate change litigation in the law of the sea 284
Meinhard Doelle, Zhen Sun and Clive Schofield
16 Climate litigation, international human rights and the right to a healthy
environment: connecting the dots 304
Sumudu Atapattu
17 Climate litigation and international trade law 328
Henok Asmelash
18 Climate change and investor-State disputes: protecting stranded assets
or promoting green investments? 344
Alessandro Monti
19 The European Union and climate change litigation: promising much but
delivering little? 364
Mar Campins Eritja
20 Climate change litigation before the World Heritage Committee: subject
to negotiation? 384
Ellen Hawkins and Anna Huggins
21 The United Nations Security Council as a climate litigation body 403
Shirley V. Scott and Charlotte Ku
22 Climate change and international criminal law 422
Julio Prieto Méndez
Index 442