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571 Cases found

ACCC Carbon Neutral Claims

At issue: Whether the Climate Active certification program is misleading consumers according to the Australian Consumer Law.
Jurisdictions:
  • Australia
    • Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
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Pirá Paraná Indigenous Council and Association of Indigenous Traditional Authorities of river Pirá Paraná “ACAIPI” v. Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and others

At issue: Whether defendants violated the plaintiffs’ human rights to self-determination, cultural integrity, autonomous governing and territory by approving and implementing the REDD+ projects in their territories.
Jurisdictions:
  • Colombia
    • Constitutional Court
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Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) v. INEA and Karpowership Brasil Energia Ltda.

At issue: Whether the permitting of towers for power transmission lines should be analyzed together with the project of floating Thermoelectric Plants considering its cumulative and synergic impacts and its contribution to climate change.
Jurisdictions:
  • Brazil
    • Rio de Janeiro
      • Rio de Janeiro Federal Court
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Instituto Internacional Arayara v. IBAMA and others

At issue: Whether the permitting of thermoelectric plants project has been conducted without considerations of GHG emissions and water related impacts.
Jurisdictions:
  • Brazil
    • Rio de Janeiro
      • Rio de Janeiro Federal Court
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ClientEarth v. Commission

At issue: Whether the labeling by the Commission of bio-plastics and the use of forest-biomass for bio-energy as ‘green investments’ is unlawful.
Jurisdictions:
  • European Union
    • General Court (known as Court of First Instance before 2010)
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Deutsche Umwelthilfe v. Germany (LULUCF)

At issue: The insufficient emissions reductions targets in the LULUCF sector, to achieving greenhouse gas neutrality.
Jurisdictions:
  • Germany
    • Baden-Württemberg
      • Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court
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Private Forest Owners v. Thuringia

At issue: Whether a section of the Thuringia Forest Act, prohibiting the change of forest areas for the construction of wind turbines interferes with property rights under the German Basic Law.
Jurisdictions:
  • Germany
    • Federal Constitutional Court
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Individuals v. Germany

At issue: Whether the German legislature was violating its constitutional duties, by not introducing a speed limit on highways.
Jurisdictions:
  • Germany
    • Federal Constitutional Court
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Greenpeace Ltd v (1) Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (2) the Oil and Gas Authority; and Uplift v (1) SSBEIS and (2) the OGA (North Sea oil and gas licensing)

At issue: The lawfulness of a further licensing round for North Sea oil and gas, and of related policy, including in respect of whether end use emissions are direct effects for the purposes of strategic environmental assessment.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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ClientEarth v. Financial Conduct Authority (Ithaca Energy plc listing on London Stock Exchange)

At issue: Whether the financial disclosures required for an oil and gas company to list on the London Stock Exchange were lawful, despite not detailing certain climate-related risks.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Butler-Sloss & Others v The Charity Commission for England And Wales & Another

At issue: Whether charitable trustees can legitimately take into account non-financial considerations when exercising their powers of investment.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Campaign to Protect Rural England v Secretary of State for Transport (challenge to the A57 Link Roads Development Consent Order 2022)

At issue: The lawfulness of consenting of a new major road project without considering cumulative carbon emissions.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Austria v. European Commission

At issue: Whether investments in fossil gas and nuclear energy rightly qualify as “environmentally sustainable” under the EU Taxonomy.
Jurisdictions:
  • European Union
    • General Court (known as Court of First Instance before 2010)
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Josefina Huffington Archbold v. Office of the President and others

At issue: Whether defendants violated their fundamental rights during the planning and execution of the action plan set in motion to aid the islands after being hit, in November 2020, by hurricane Iota.
Jurisdictions:
  • Colombia
    • Constitutional Court
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Rights: Community: Action v. Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (Action Plan for Salt Cross Garden Village)

At issue: Whether planning inspectors acted unlawfully when finding a council’s inclusion of net-zero standards in its plan for the development of a new village conflicted with national policy.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Friends of the Earth v. Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; and South Lakeland Action on Climate Change v. SSLUHC (Whitehaven coalmine)

At issue: Whether the decision to grant planning permission for a new coking coal mine was unlawful.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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CAN (Coal Action Network) v. Coal Authority and Welsh Ministers

At issue: Whether the Coal Authority misinterpreted its legal powers and the Welsh government were in error of law under the Coal Industry Act 1994 to allow expansion of the Aberpergwm coal mine.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Possible v. Secretary of State for Transport; and GALBA v. SST (challenges to government’s ‘Jet Zero strategy’ for decarbonising aviation)

At issue: Whether the government’s “Jet Zero” strategy breaches the Climate Change Act or public law principles.
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
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Eolise v. France

At issue: Whether the French government’s failure to take further action to implement renewable energies violates the law.
Jurisdictions:
  • France
    • Council of State
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Movement v. Waka Kotahi

At issue: Whether, in its preparation of a National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), New Zealand’s national land transport agency had lawfully complied with its procedural obligations under national legislation and high-level policy, including an alleged obligation to put in place quantitative measures for emissions.
Jurisdictions:
  • New Zealand
    • High Court of New Zealand
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