Courts Addressing Government Response to Climate Change

Foreign Cases Referenced in Amicus Brief

Courts Reviewing Government Action

Mathur v. Ontario, 2020 ONSC 6918 (Superior Ct. of Justice Ontario) (13 July 2020)

• Link: https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2020/2020onsc6918/2020onsc6918.html 

Neubauer, et al. v. Germany, BVerfG, Beschluss des Ersten Senats vom 24. März 2021 - 1 BvR 2656/18 -, Rn. 1-270 [Order of the First Senate of 24 March 2021]

• Link (German and English): https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/DE/2021/03/rs20210324_1bvr265618.html

The State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation, ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2006 (Supreme Court of the Netherlands) (20 December 2019)

• Link (Dutch): https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2006

• (English translation): https://www.urgenda.nl/wp-content/uploads/ENG-Dutch-Supreme-Court-Urgenda-v-Netherlands-20-12-2019.pdf  

Barragán, et al. v. Presidencia de la República et al., Corte Suprema de Justicia [C.S.J.], 5 abril 2018, MP Luis Armando Tolosa Villabona, STC4360-2018 

• Link (Spanish):https://cortesuprema.gov.co/corte/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/STC4360-2018-2018-00319-011.pdf  

India Council for Enviro-Legal Action v. Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Nat’l Green Trib., App. No. 170 of 2014 

• Link: https://www.legitquest.com/case/indian-council-for-enviro-legal-action-icela-v-ministry-of-environment/1468F2 

Friends of the Irish Environment v. Ireland, Appeal No: 205/19 (Supreme Court of Ireland) (31 July 2020)

• Link :https://www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/681b8633-3f57-41b5-9362-8cbc8e7d9215/2020_IESC_49.pdf/pdf#view=fitH  

Thomson v. Minister for Climate Change Issues, CIV 2015-485-919 [2017] NZHC 733

• Link: http://www.commonlii.org/cgi-bin/disp.pl/nz/cases/NZHC/2017/733.html?stem=0&synonyms=0&query=title(Thomson%20and%20.%20minister%20for%20climate%20change%20issues%20) 

Leghari v. Pakistan, (2015) WP No. 25501/2015 (Punjab)

• Link: https://elaw.org/system/files/attachments/publicresource/pk.leghari.091415_1.pdf   

VZW Klimaatzaak v. Kingdom of Belgium and Others, Belgium Court of First Instance, No. 167, 83 (Jun. 17, 2021)

• Link: http://climatecasechart.com/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/non-us-case-documents/2021/20210617_2660_judgment-1.p

Notre Affaire à Tous and Others v. France, No. 1904967, 1904968, 1904972, 1904976/4-1, Paris Administrative Court (3 February 2021) 

• Link: http://paris.tribunal-administratif.fr/content/download/179360/1759761/version/1/file/1904967190496819049721904976.pdf  

Other Foreign Decisions Cited

Case of the Yakye Axa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay, Judgment of June 17, 2005 (Merits, Reparations and Costs)

• Link: https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_125_ing.pdf

T. Damodhar Rao v. Municipal Corp. of Hyderabad, 1987 A.I.R (AP) 171

• Link:  https://indiankanoon.org/doc/205063/

Shantistar Builders v. Narayan Khimalal Totame, [1990] 1 SCC 520

• Link: https://indiankanoon.org/

West Pakistan Salt Miners Labour Union v. Industries and Mineral Development, 1994 S.C.M.R. 2061

• Link: https://www.elaw.org/system/files/SC-1994-Salt-Miners-v.-Director-Industries-and-Mineral-Development.pdf

Mohiuddin Farooque v. Bangladesh, [1997] 17 B.L.D. (A.D.) 1 

• Link: https://elaw.org/bd.farooque.FAP.1996), 

Gbemre v. Shell Petroleum Dev. Co. Nigeria Ltd., [2005] AHRLR 151 

• Link: https://www.informea.org/sites/default/files/court-decisions/COU10156302.pdf