Climate change lawsuits spreading around the world, says report

Litigation is increasingly being used a tool to influence climate policy, according to the report. (CNN)Legal action on climate change has become a global phenomenon, with lawsuits launched against governments and corporate interests in 28 countries so far, according to new research published Thursday. A report from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science looked at instances of legal action on climate change from 1990 to May 2019. Researchers found that while the US remains the global leader in terms of climate change litigation, the prevalence of such lawsuits has spread worldwide, according to a press release . This reflects an increasing willingness to use litigation as a tool to influence policy, according to the report, and human rights and science are playing an increasingly important role in these lawsuits. Since 2015, the first cases of climate change litigation were recorded in Colombia, Indonesia, Norway, Pakistan and South Africa, according to the report, titled "Global trends in climate change litigation: 2019 snapshot." "More and more countries, not only in the global north but in the global south, are bringing cases," report co-author Joana Setzer, research fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate […]

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