Climate Litigation
Demanding justification through strategic climate litigation: Ticking a procedural box or enforcing principles of justice?
On 24 September, Professor Christina Eckes spoke at a Climate Equality Litigation event organised by Berkeley Law and Climate Litigation Network. The symposium brought together practitioners and scholars to exchange ideas, knowledge and strategic insights on the use of equality law in climate litigation.
Christina spoke in Session 2, Panel 2: New Legal Strategies in Climate Equality Litigation. The title of her presentation was ‘Demanding justification through strategic climate litigation: Ticking a procedural box or enforcing principles of justice?’
About the symposium
Litigation on climate change is occurring around the world at national, regional and international levels. Many of these cases raise equality issues pointing to the unequal impacts of climate change on a range of vulnerable groups, but equality law arguments are not always front and center in these cases.
