Strategic Climate Litigation

Direct & indirect consequences for democracy

We are developing the missing theoretical framework that captures the direct and indirect consequences of strategic climate litigation for the democratic process.

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Upcoming Events

December 2024

Dec 12 2024

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Training sessions and Policy Innovation Lab on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights in Climate Litigation

Dec 13 2024

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

How to Challenge Insufficient EU Climate Action Before the European Court of Justice? Joint Creative Thinking on Overcoming the Well-known Obstacles

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Latest News

The Appeal Decision in Milieudefensie/Royal Dutch Shell Confirms Climate Litigation’s Place in the Democratic Process

What does EU Law say about Banning Fossil Fuel Advertising?

Demanding justification through strategic climate litigation: Ticking a procedural box or enforcing principles of justice?

Recent video

Recording of the lecture given by Professor Christina Eckes, 27 May 2024

Research

Read the latest papers from our team.

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In times of increasing climatic and political pressures, strategic climate litigation may be an ambivalent hope to speak truth to power. Our research aims to disperse some of this fog of ambivalence.

– Christina Eckes –

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