Suits against governments Archives - Climate Change Litigation

357 Cases found

Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking to Redress Violations of the Rights of Children in Cité Soleil, Haiti

At issue: Whether the health harms from trash disposal, exacerbated by climate change, violate Haitian children's human rights.

Jurisdictions:

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Hanuman Laxman Aroskar v. Union of India

At issue: Whether the Indian government's approval of a new airport adequately considered environmental impacts

Jurisdictions:

India
- Supreme Court

Segovia et al. v. Climate Change Commission

At issue: Whether the Philippine government's Climate Change Commission violated the Philippine violated the constitution by failing to enact ambitious climate-related transportation measures.

Jurisdictions:

Philippines
- Supreme Court

Greenpeace East Asia and others v. Ministry of Economic Affairs

At issue: Whether Taiwan's Regulation for Large Power Consumers was not sufficiently ambitious, in violation of the country's climate laws.

Jurisdictions:

Taiwan
- Taipei Administrative Court

ClientEarth v. European Investment Bank

At issue: Whether finance decisions by the European Investment Bank may be subject to requests for internal review under the Aarhus Convention over their potential environmental harm.

Jurisdictions:

European Union
- General Court (known as Court of First Instance before 2010)

Greenpeace Netherlands v. State of the Netherlands

At issue: Whether the Dutch government violated its duty of care to prevent dangerous climate change by failing to attach stringent climate conditions to its coronavirus bailout package of the airline KLM.

Jurisdictions:

Netherlands
- The Hague
  - District Court

Friends of the Earth v. UK Export Finance

At issue: Whether the UK government's decision to provide financing to a liquid natural gas project in Mozambique violated climate commitments

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Conservation Council of Western Australia v. Hatton and Woodside

At issue: Whether the state EPA's allowing expanded natural gas sourcing violated the state Environmental Protection Act due to environmental and climate impacts

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- Western Australia
  - Supreme Court

KEPCO Bylong Australia v. Independent Planning Commission and Bylong Valley Protection Alliance

At issue: Whether a planning commission's rejection of a coal mine on sustainability and climate grounds was unlawful

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- New South Wales
  - Land and Environment Court

Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport (on National Policy Statement)

At issue: Whether the UK government's national policy statement on road building must be reassessed in light of new, more ambitious climate targets

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport and Highway England Company (on Roads Investment Strategy)

At issue: Whether the UK government's Second Roads Investment Strategy unlawfully fails to consider climate and air pollution impacts

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Elliott-Smith v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy et al.

At issue: Whether the UK Emissions Trading Scheme sets an improperly high emissions cap and unlawfully excludes incinerator emissions

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Institute of Amazonian Studies v. Brazil

At issue: Whether the Brazilian Constitution guarantees a fundamental right to a stable climate and whether the Brazilian government may be compelled to meet emission and deforestation reduction goals

Jurisdictions:

Brazil
- Federal District Court of Curitiba

Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights et al. v. Tanzania and Uganda

At issue: Whether agreements to build the East African Crude Oil Pipeline violate environmental and human rights impact assessment requirements

Jurisdictions:

East African Court of Justice

PSB et al. v. Brazil (on deforestation and human rights)

At issue: Whether Brazil's failure to curb deforestation and resulting climate change violates fundamental constitutional rights of indigenous peoples and current and future generations.

Jurisdictions:

Brazil
- Federal Supreme Court

Thomas v. EPA

At issue: Whether environmental permit that allowed oil exploration and production for 23 years violated Guyanese environmental regulations limiting such permits to five years

Jurisdictions:

Guyana
- Supreme Court

Greenpeace Mexico v. Ministry of Energy and Others

At issue: Whether Mexico's energy sector policy violates human rights by promoting fossil fuels at the expense of renewables

Jurisdictions:

Mexico
- District Court in Administrative Matters

Shrestha v. Office of the Prime Minister et al.

At issue: Seeking an order to compel the government of Nepal to enact an adequate climate change law

Jurisdictions:

Nepal
- Supreme Court

Korean Biomass Plaintiffs v. South Korea

At issue: Whether South Korea's subsidies to biomass generation violate the constitutional environmental rights of solar owners and nearby residents

Jurisdictions:

South Korea
- Constitutional Court

Lark v. Shellharbour City Council

At issue: Plaintiff challenged climate-based conditions in building permit

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- New South Wales
  - Land and Environment Court