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R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) v Surrey County Council and others, UKSC 20 (20 June 2024)
2024
Climate Change Greenhouse gases
Environmental Impact Assessment Impacts
Oil & Gas Onshore oil & gas
Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland - Application no. 53600/20, Grand Chamber (European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg) (9 April 2024)
2024
Western Europe Switzerland
Access to Justice Standing
Climate Change Litigation United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Human Rights European Court of Human Rights
M K Ranjitsinh & Ors. v Union of India & Ors. Supreme Court of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 838 of 2019 with Civil Appeal No. 3570 of 2022 (judgment) (21 March 2024)
2024
South Asia India
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Energy Renewables
Right to ... Health
Sustainable Development
Wildlife Endangered species
Held v. Montana, No. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. 1st Dist. Ct.) (14 Aug. 2023)
2023
North America United States of America
Climate Change Greenhouse gases Litigation
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment
Environmental Impact Assessment
Public Trust Doctrine
Right to ... Healthy Environment
PSB, P-SOL, PT, REDE v. União [2022] ADPF 708 (1 July 2022) (published 11 July 2022)
2022
South America Brazil
Climate Change United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Human Rights
Notre Affaire à Tous and Others v. France, No. 1904967, 1904968, 1904972, 1904976/4-1, Paris Administrative Court (3 February 2021)
2021
Western Europe France
Climate Change Greenhouse gases United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Jugement Correctionnel, Cour d’Appel de Lyon, No. 19168000015 (16 Sept 2019)
2019
Western Europe France
Climate Change
Crimes
Sheikh Asim Farooq v. Federation of Pakistan, W.P. No. 192069 of 2018 (Lahore High Court) (30 August 2019)
2019
South Asia Pakistan
Climate Change
Forests
WildEarth Guardians v. Zinke, 1:16-cv-01724 (RC) D.D.C. (19 March 2019)
2019
North America United States of America
Climate Change Greenhouse gases Litigation
Oil & Gas
Gloucester Resources Limited v. Minister for Planning [2019] NSWLEC 7 (8 February 2019)
2019
Pacific Australia
Climate Change Greenhouse gases
Mining Coal mining
Padam Bahadur Shrestha v. Prime Minister and others, 074-WO-0283 (Supreme Court) (25 December 2018)
2018
South Asia Nepal
Climate Change
Sentencia 4360-2018 de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, Sala de Casacion Civil, M.P. Luis Armando Tolosa Villabona (2018)
2018
South America Colombia
Biodiversity
Climate Change Greenhouse gases United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Forests
The Supreme Court determined several Colombian authorities responsible for the deforestation in the Amazon and ordered those authorities to develop plans and implement measures to stop the emissions of GHGs and other harmful impacts caused by deforestation in order to protect fundamental rights of Colombians, especially those of children and future generations.

This project has been made possible by the generous support of the Philip Stoddard Brown and Adele Smith Brown Foundation.