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Parents for Future Brazil v. State Government of Sao Paulo

At issue: Whether the State of Sao Paulo must disclose climate and budget impacts of an automaking fund.
Jurisdictions:
  • Brazil
    • Court of Justice of Sao Paulo
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Friends of the Earth et al. v. Prefect of of Bouches-du-Rhône and Total

At issue: Whether a permit to operate a biorefinery must take into account climate impacts of palm oil production and use.
Jurisdictions:
  • France
    • Administrative Court of Marseille
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Association for Protection of Democratic Rights v. The State of West Bengal and Others

At issue: Whether the State of West Bengal may cut hundreds of trees in order to construct and widen roads.
Jurisdictions:
  • India
    • Supreme Court
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Global Legal Action on Climate Change v. The Philippines Government

At issue: Local government officials' compliance with 1989 law relating to water provision and flood control
Jurisdictions:
  • Philippines
    • Supreme Court
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Greenpeace Mexico v. Ministry of Energy and Others (on the National Electric System policies)

At issue: Whether National Electric System policies are unconstitutional for discriminating against renewables.
Jurisdictions:
  • Mexico
    • First Circuit Collegiate Tribunal
  • Mexico
    • District Court in Administrative Matters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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