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LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to SACCHI ET AL. V. ARGENTINA ET AL. Summary: Sixteen children filed a petition alleging that Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey violated their rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (“the Convention”) by making insufficient cuts to greenhouse gases and failing to encourage the world’s biggest emitters to curb carbonpollution.
DUARTE AGOSTINHO AND OTHERS V. PORTUGAL AND 32 OTHER Principal Laws: On September 2, 2020, six Portuguese youth filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries. The complaint alleges that the respondents have violated human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change, and seeks an order requiring them to take more ambitious action. Thecomplaint
LEGHARI V. FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Leghari v. Federation of Pakistan. An appellate court in Pakistan granted the claims of Ashgar Leghari, a Pakistani farmer, who had sued the national government for failure to carry out the National Climate Change Policy of 2012 and the Framework for Implementation of Climate Change Policy (2014-2030). On September 4, 2015 the court, citing NOTRE AFFAIRE À TOUS AND OTHERS V. FRANCE The four plaintiff groups are Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme (FNH), Greenpeace France, Notre Affaire à Tous and Oxfam France. In their press release, they describe the lawsuit as challenging the state's inaction on climate change and failure to meet its own goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing renewable energy,and
COMMONWEALTH V. EXXON MOBIL CORP. Exxon to Seek Dismissal of Massachusetts Lawsuit Under Anti-SLAPP Law. Exxon Mobil Corporation filed a notice in a Massachusetts state court indicating that it would seek to dismiss the Massachusetts Attorney General’s lawsuit asserting that Exxon’s failure to disclose climate change risks deceived investors and consumers. PETITION OF TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS TO THE UNITED NATIONS Summary: A group of eight Torres Strait Islanders submitted a petition against the Australian government to the United Nations Human RightsCommittee.
CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION DATABASES Non-U.S. Climate Change Litigation. This site provides two databases of climate change caselaw. Cases in the databases are organized by type of claim and are searchable. In many cases, links are available to decisions, complaints, and other case documents. LUCIANO LLIUYA V. RWE AG Germany. Civil Code para. 1004. Summary: In November 2015, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who lives in Huaraz, Peru, filed claims for declaratory judgment and damages in a German court against RWE, Germany’s largest electricity producer. Luciano Lliuya’s suit alleged that RWE, having knowingly contributed to climate change by NEUBAUER, ET AL. V. GERMANY Jurisdictions: In February 2020, a group of German youth filed a legal challenge to Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act (“Bundesklimaschutzgesetz” or “KSG”), arguing that the KSG's target of reducing GHGs 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels was insufficient. The complainants alleged that the KSG therefore violated their humanrights as
LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to SACCHI ET AL. V. ARGENTINA ET AL. Summary: Sixteen children filed a petition alleging that Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey violated their rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (“the Convention”) by making insufficient cuts to greenhouse gases and failing to encourage the world’s biggest emitters to curb carbonpollution.
DUARTE AGOSTINHO AND OTHERS V. PORTUGAL AND 32 OTHER Principal Laws: On September 2, 2020, six Portuguese youth filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries. The complaint alleges that the respondents have violated human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change, and seeks an order requiring them to take more ambitious action. Thecomplaint
LEGHARI V. FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Leghari v. Federation of Pakistan. An appellate court in Pakistan granted the claims of Ashgar Leghari, a Pakistani farmer, who had sued the national government for failure to carry out the National Climate Change Policy of 2012 and the Framework for Implementation of Climate Change Policy (2014-2030). On September 4, 2015 the court, citing NOTRE AFFAIRE À TOUS AND OTHERS V. FRANCE The four plaintiff groups are Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme (FNH), Greenpeace France, Notre Affaire à Tous and Oxfam France. In their press release, they describe the lawsuit as challenging the state's inaction on climate change and failure to meet its own goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing renewable energy,and
COMMONWEALTH V. EXXON MOBIL CORP. Exxon to Seek Dismissal of Massachusetts Lawsuit Under Anti-SLAPP Law. Exxon Mobil Corporation filed a notice in a Massachusetts state court indicating that it would seek to dismiss the Massachusetts Attorney General’s lawsuit asserting that Exxon’s failure to disclose climate change risks deceived investors and consumers. PETITION OF TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS TO THE UNITED NATIONS Summary: A group of eight Torres Strait Islanders submitted a petition against the Australian government to the United Nations Human RightsCommittee.
MCVEIGH V. RETAIL EMPLOYEES SUPERANNUATION TRUST Summary: On November 2, 2020, the parties reached a settlement where the Australian pension fund agreed to incorporate climate change financial risks in its investments and implement a net-zero by 2050 carbon footprint goal. SHARMA AND OTHERS V. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Summary: On September 8, 2020, eight young people filed a putative class action in Australia's Federal Court to block a coal project. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the Australian Government from approving an extension of the Whitehaven Vickery coal mine. The plaintiffs claim to represent all people under 18, and argue thatFederal
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION V. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF Description: Lawsuit challenging U.S. Army Corps of Engineers actions in connection with approvals for a 101-mile high-voltage transmission line running from Iowa to a substation in Wisconsin. ENVOL VERT ET AL. V. CASINO Article L. 225-102-5. France. Duty of Vigilance Law. Summary: On March 2, 2021, an international coalition of eleven NGOs sued the French supermarket chain Casino for its involvement in the cattle industry in Brazil and Colombia, which plaintiffs allege cause environmental and human rights harms. The alleged environmental harms include IN RE HAWAI‘I ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary; 05/24/2021: Opinion: Download: Public Utilities Commission's orders vacated and case remanded for hearing. Hawai‘i Supreme Court Again Returned Biomass Power Purchase Agreement to Public Utilities Commission forConsideration of
DO-HYUN KIM ET AL. V. SOUTH KOREA Summary: On March 13, 2020, nineteen youth activists filed a complaint in the South Korean Constitutional Court alleging that the nation's climate change law violates their fundamental rights, including the right to live and a clean environment. South Korea's Framework Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth, which was amended in December 2019, commits CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY V. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to publish proposed rules regarding the listing of 10 species as endangered or threatened. CITIZENS FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY V. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF Description: Lawsuit challenging federal defendants’ approval of the North Fork Mancos Master Development Plan, which allowed drilling of 35 horizontal gas wells in an area on the Western Slope of the RockyMountains.
COMMONWEALTH V. EXXON MOBIL CORP. Exxon to Seek Dismissal of Massachusetts Lawsuit Under Anti-SLAPP Law. Exxon Mobil Corporation filed a notice in a Massachusetts state court indicating that it would seek to dismiss the Massachusetts Attorney General’s lawsuit asserting that Exxon’s failure to disclose climate change risks deceived investors and consumers. MATHUR, ET AL. V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF Principal Laws: Seven youth brought suit alleging that Ontario violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom ("the Charter") by abdicating its responsibility to address climate change. Plaintiffs argue that Ontario has failed to meet the challenge of avoiding catastrophic climate change, which must be done within eleven yearsaccording to
CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION DATABASES Non-U.S. Climate Change Litigation. This site provides two databases of climate change caselaw. Cases in the databases are organized by type of claim and are searchable. In many cases, links are available to decisions, complaints, and other case documents. LUCIANO LLIUYA V. RWE AG Germany. Civil Code para. 1004. Summary: In November 2015, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who lives in Huaraz, Peru, filed claims for declaratory judgment and damages in a German court against RWE, Germany’s largest electricity producer. Luciano Lliuya’s suit alleged that RWE, having knowingly contributed to climate change by NEUBAUER, ET AL. V. GERMANY Jurisdictions: In February 2020, a group of German youth filed a legal challenge to Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act (“Bundesklimaschutzgesetz” or “KSG”), arguing that the KSG's target of reducing GHGs 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels was insufficient. The complainants alleged that the KSG therefore violated their humanrights as
LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to DUARTE AGOSTINHO AND OTHERS V. PORTUGAL AND 32 OTHER Principal Laws: On September 2, 2020, six Portuguese youth filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries. The complaint alleges that the respondents have violated human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change, and seeks an order requiring them to take more ambitious action. Thecomplaint
MCVEIGH V. RETAIL EMPLOYEES SUPERANNUATION TRUST Summary: On November 2, 2020, the parties reached a settlement where the Australian pension fund agreed to incorporate climate change financial risks in its investments and implement a net-zero by 2050 carbon footprint goal. NOTRE AFFAIRE À TOUS AND OTHERS V. TOTAL The French NGOs Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, Zea, and Les Eco Maires along with more than a dozen French local governments have taken the first step in a legal proceeding against French oil company and carbon major Total. Provided this action proceeds, it will represent the first French climate lawsuit against a fossil fuel company. SHARMA AND OTHERS V. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Summary: On September 8, 2020, eight young people filed a putative class action in Australia's Federal Court to block a coal project. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the Australian Government from approving an extension of the Whitehaven Vickery coal mine. The plaintiffs claim to represent all people under 18, and argue thatFederal
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ET AL. V. PREFECT OF OF BOUCHES-DU Directives. 2009/28/EC. Summary: On April 1, 2021, the Administrative Court of Marseille partially invalidated Total's permit to operate a biorefinery in France and directed the company to study the climate impacts of imported palm oil. NGO plaintiffs alleged that the Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, in authorizing the continued operation of the UNION OF SWISS SENIOR WOMEN FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION V Summary: In 2016, a group of senior women, filed suit against the Swiss Government, alleging that the government had failed to uphold obligations under the Swiss Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by not steering Switzerland onto an emissions reduction trajectory consistent with the goal of keeping global temperatures below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels. CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION DATABASES Non-U.S. Climate Change Litigation. This site provides two databases of climate change caselaw. Cases in the databases are organized by type of claim and are searchable. In many cases, links are available to decisions, complaints, and other case documents. LUCIANO LLIUYA V. RWE AG Germany. Civil Code para. 1004. Summary: In November 2015, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who lives in Huaraz, Peru, filed claims for declaratory judgment and damages in a German court against RWE, Germany’s largest electricity producer. Luciano Lliuya’s suit alleged that RWE, having knowingly contributed to climate change by NEUBAUER, ET AL. V. GERMANY Jurisdictions: In February 2020, a group of German youth filed a legal challenge to Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act (“Bundesklimaschutzgesetz” or “KSG”), arguing that the KSG's target of reducing GHGs 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels was insufficient. The complainants alleged that the KSG therefore violated their humanrights as
LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to DUARTE AGOSTINHO AND OTHERS V. PORTUGAL AND 32 OTHER Principal Laws: On September 2, 2020, six Portuguese youth filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries. The complaint alleges that the respondents have violated human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change, and seeks an order requiring them to take more ambitious action. Thecomplaint
MCVEIGH V. RETAIL EMPLOYEES SUPERANNUATION TRUST Summary: On November 2, 2020, the parties reached a settlement where the Australian pension fund agreed to incorporate climate change financial risks in its investments and implement a net-zero by 2050 carbon footprint goal. NOTRE AFFAIRE À TOUS AND OTHERS V. TOTAL The French NGOs Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, Zea, and Les Eco Maires along with more than a dozen French local governments have taken the first step in a legal proceeding against French oil company and carbon major Total. Provided this action proceeds, it will represent the first French climate lawsuit against a fossil fuel company. SHARMA AND OTHERS V. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Summary: On September 8, 2020, eight young people filed a putative class action in Australia's Federal Court to block a coal project. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the Australian Government from approving an extension of the Whitehaven Vickery coal mine. The plaintiffs claim to represent all people under 18, and argue thatFederal
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ET AL. V. PREFECT OF OF BOUCHES-DU Directives. 2009/28/EC. Summary: On April 1, 2021, the Administrative Court of Marseille partially invalidated Total's permit to operate a biorefinery in France and directed the company to study the climate impacts of imported palm oil. NGO plaintiffs alleged that the Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, in authorizing the continued operation of the UNION OF SWISS SENIOR WOMEN FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION V Summary: In 2016, a group of senior women, filed suit against the Swiss Government, alleging that the government had failed to uphold obligations under the Swiss Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by not steering Switzerland onto an emissions reduction trajectory consistent with the goal of keeping global temperatures below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels. NEUBAUER, ET AL. V. GERMANY Summary: In February 2020, a group of German youth filed a legal challenge to Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act (“Bundesklimaschutzgesetz” or “KSG”), arguing that the KSG's target of reducing GHGs 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels was insufficient. LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to DO-HYUN KIM ET AL. V. SOUTH KOREA Summary: On March 13, 2020, nineteen youth activists filed a complaint in the South Korean Constitutional Court alleging that the nation's climate change law violates their fundamental rights, including the right to live and a clean environment. South Korea's Framework Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth, which was amended in December 2019, commits ENVOL VERT ET AL. V. CASINO Article L. 225-102-5. France. Duty of Vigilance Law. Summary: On March 2, 2021, an international coalition of eleven NGOs sued the French supermarket chain Casino for its involvement in the cattle industry in Brazil and Colombia, which plaintiffs allege cause environmental and human rights harms. The alleged environmental harms include IN RE HAWAI‘I ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary; 05/24/2021: Opinion: Download: Public Utilities Commission's orders vacated and case remanded for hearing. Hawai‘i Supreme Court Again Returned Biomass Power Purchase Agreement to Public Utilities Commission forConsideration of
SHARMA AND OTHERS V. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Summary: On September 8, 2020, eight young people filed a putative class action in Australia's Federal Court to block a coal project. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the Australian Government from approving an extension of the Whitehaven Vickery coal mine. The plaintiffs claim to represent all people under 18, and argue thatFederal
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY V. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to publish proposed rules regarding the listing of 10 species as endangered or threatened. NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION V. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF Description: Lawsuit challenging U.S. Army Corps of Engineers actions in connection with approvals for a 101-mile high-voltage transmission line running from Iowa to a substation in Wisconsin. CITIZENS FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY V. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF Description: Lawsuit challenging federal defendants’ approval of the North Fork Mancos Master Development Plan, which allowed drilling of 35 horizontal gas wells in an area on the Western Slope of the RockyMountains.
MILIEUDEFENSIE ET AL. V. ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC. Summary: On Monday, April 5th, 2019, the environmental group Milieudefensie/Friends of the Earth Netherlands and co-plaintiffs served Shell a court summons alleging Shell’s contributions to climate change violate its duty of care under Dutch law and human rights obligations. The case was filed in the Hague Court of Appeals. CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION DATABASES Non-U.S. Climate Change Litigation. This site provides two databases of climate change caselaw. Cases in the databases are organized by type of claim and are searchable. In many cases, links are available to decisions, complaints, and other case documents. LUCIANO LLIUYA V. RWE AG Germany. Civil Code para. 1004. Summary: In November 2015, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who lives in Huaraz, Peru, filed claims for declaratory judgment and damages in a German court against RWE, Germany’s largest electricity producer. Luciano Lliuya’s suit alleged that RWE, having knowingly contributed to climate change by NEUBAUER, ET AL. V. GERMANY Jurisdictions: In February 2020, a group of German youth filed a legal challenge to Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act (“Bundesklimaschutzgesetz” or “KSG”), arguing that the KSG's target of reducing GHGs 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels was insufficient. The complainants alleged that the KSG therefore violated their humanrights as
LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to DUARTE AGOSTINHO AND OTHERS V. PORTUGAL AND 32 OTHER Principal Laws: On September 2, 2020, six Portuguese youth filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries. The complaint alleges that the respondents have violated human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change, and seeks an order requiring them to take more ambitious action. Thecomplaint
MCVEIGH V. RETAIL EMPLOYEES SUPERANNUATION TRUST Summary: On November 2, 2020, the parties reached a settlement where the Australian pension fund agreed to incorporate climate change financial risks in its investments and implement a net-zero by 2050 carbon footprint goal. NOTRE AFFAIRE À TOUS AND OTHERS V. TOTAL The French NGOs Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, Zea, and Les Eco Maires along with more than a dozen French local governments have taken the first step in a legal proceeding against French oil company and carbon major Total. Provided this action proceeds, it will represent the first French climate lawsuit against a fossil fuel company. SHARMA AND OTHERS V. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Summary: On September 8, 2020, eight young people filed a putative class action in Australia's Federal Court to block a coal project. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the Australian Government from approving an extension of the Whitehaven Vickery coal mine. The plaintiffs claim to represent all people under 18, and argue thatFederal
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ET AL. V. PREFECT OF OF BOUCHES-DU Directives. 2009/28/EC. Summary: On April 1, 2021, the Administrative Court of Marseille partially invalidated Total's permit to operate a biorefinery in France and directed the company to study the climate impacts of imported palm oil. NGO plaintiffs alleged that the Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, in authorizing the continued operation of the UNION OF SWISS SENIOR WOMEN FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION V Summary: In 2016, a group of senior women, filed suit against the Swiss Government, alleging that the government had failed to uphold obligations under the Swiss Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by not steering Switzerland onto an emissions reduction trajectory consistent with the goal of keeping global temperatures below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels. CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION DATABASES Non-U.S. Climate Change Litigation. This site provides two databases of climate change caselaw. Cases in the databases are organized by type of claim and are searchable. In many cases, links are available to decisions, complaints, and other case documents. LUCIANO LLIUYA V. RWE AG Germany. Civil Code para. 1004. Summary: In November 2015, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who lives in Huaraz, Peru, filed claims for declaratory judgment and damages in a German court against RWE, Germany’s largest electricity producer. Luciano Lliuya’s suit alleged that RWE, having knowingly contributed to climate change by NEUBAUER, ET AL. V. GERMANY Jurisdictions: In February 2020, a group of German youth filed a legal challenge to Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act (“Bundesklimaschutzgesetz” or “KSG”), arguing that the KSG's target of reducing GHGs 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels was insufficient. The complainants alleged that the KSG therefore violated their humanrights as
LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to DUARTE AGOSTINHO AND OTHERS V. PORTUGAL AND 32 OTHER Principal Laws: On September 2, 2020, six Portuguese youth filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries. The complaint alleges that the respondents have violated human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change, and seeks an order requiring them to take more ambitious action. Thecomplaint
MCVEIGH V. RETAIL EMPLOYEES SUPERANNUATION TRUST Summary: On November 2, 2020, the parties reached a settlement where the Australian pension fund agreed to incorporate climate change financial risks in its investments and implement a net-zero by 2050 carbon footprint goal. NOTRE AFFAIRE À TOUS AND OTHERS V. TOTAL The French NGOs Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, Zea, and Les Eco Maires along with more than a dozen French local governments have taken the first step in a legal proceeding against French oil company and carbon major Total. Provided this action proceeds, it will represent the first French climate lawsuit against a fossil fuel company. SHARMA AND OTHERS V. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Summary: On September 8, 2020, eight young people filed a putative class action in Australia's Federal Court to block a coal project. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the Australian Government from approving an extension of the Whitehaven Vickery coal mine. The plaintiffs claim to represent all people under 18, and argue thatFederal
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ET AL. V. PREFECT OF OF BOUCHES-DU Directives. 2009/28/EC. Summary: On April 1, 2021, the Administrative Court of Marseille partially invalidated Total's permit to operate a biorefinery in France and directed the company to study the climate impacts of imported palm oil. NGO plaintiffs alleged that the Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, in authorizing the continued operation of the UNION OF SWISS SENIOR WOMEN FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION V Summary: In 2016, a group of senior women, filed suit against the Swiss Government, alleging that the government had failed to uphold obligations under the Swiss Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by not steering Switzerland onto an emissions reduction trajectory consistent with the goal of keeping global temperatures below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels. NEUBAUER, ET AL. V. GERMANY Summary: In February 2020, a group of German youth filed a legal challenge to Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act (“Bundesklimaschutzgesetz” or “KSG”), arguing that the KSG's target of reducing GHGs 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels was insufficient. LA ROSE V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen. On October 27, 2020, a Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit by Canadian youth against the Canadian government on a pretrial motion to strike for failing to state a reasonable cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the case to DO-HYUN KIM ET AL. V. SOUTH KOREA Summary: On March 13, 2020, nineteen youth activists filed a complaint in the South Korean Constitutional Court alleging that the nation's climate change law violates their fundamental rights, including the right to live and a clean environment. South Korea's Framework Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth, which was amended in December 2019, commits ENVOL VERT ET AL. V. CASINO Article L. 225-102-5. France. Duty of Vigilance Law. Summary: On March 2, 2021, an international coalition of eleven NGOs sued the French supermarket chain Casino for its involvement in the cattle industry in Brazil and Colombia, which plaintiffs allege cause environmental and human rights harms. The alleged environmental harms include IN RE HAWAI‘I ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary; 05/24/2021: Opinion: Download: Public Utilities Commission's orders vacated and case remanded for hearing. Hawai‘i Supreme Court Again Returned Biomass Power Purchase Agreement to Public Utilities Commission forConsideration of
SHARMA AND OTHERS V. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Summary: On September 8, 2020, eight young people filed a putative class action in Australia's Federal Court to block a coal project. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the Australian Government from approving an extension of the Whitehaven Vickery coal mine. The plaintiffs claim to represent all people under 18, and argue thatFederal
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY V. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to publish proposed rules regarding the listing of 10 species as endangered or threatened. NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION V. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF Description: Lawsuit challenging U.S. Army Corps of Engineers actions in connection with approvals for a 101-mile high-voltage transmission line running from Iowa to a substation in Wisconsin. CITIZENS FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY V. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF Description: Lawsuit challenging federal defendants’ approval of the North Fork Mancos Master Development Plan, which allowed drilling of 35 horizontal gas wells in an area on the Western Slope of the RockyMountains.
MILIEUDEFENSIE ET AL. V. ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC. Summary: On Monday, April 5th, 2019, the environmental group Milieudefensie/Friends of the Earth Netherlands and co-plaintiffs served Shell a court summons alleging Shell’s contributions to climate change violate its duty of care under Dutch law and human rights obligations. The case was filed in the Hague Court of Appeals. * Skip to main content* Home
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