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CLX focuses on various areas of climate governance and law (mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage) and the full panoply of legal tools available to foster change (from amicus briefs and expert testimony to reports and educational videos).
Highlights
Featured
Leveraging data from the CLX rights-based litigation database, César Rodríguez-Garavito releases a new book and learning kit on rights-based climate litigation.
Report
The UCS Science Hub for Climate Litigation, in collaboration with the NYU Climate Law Accelerator (CLX) and LSE Grantham Research Institute, has published a new resource to help lawyers navigate the use of climate science in law. This document provides explanations for scientific terminology commonly used in climate litigation, highlighting how lawyers can understand these concepts in legal contexts.
Report
CLX’s first report on climate-change-induced Loss and Damage identifies key strategies and challenges across litigation against Carbon Majors. It examines pending cases, including the defendants named, jurisdictions chosen, theories of liability advanced, evidence presented, and remedies sought.
Legal Intervention
In an amicus brief to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, CLX explains how the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment applies to the climate crisis.
CLX focuses on a wide range of impacts, various areas of climate governance and law, and the full panoply of legal tools available to foster change.
