Climate Change in the Courtroom: Trends, Impacts and Emerging Lessons

This report, which updates previous United Nations Environment Programme reports published in 2017, 2020 and 2023, provides an overview of the current state of climate change litigation and an update on global climate change litigation trends. It provides judges, lawyers, advocates, policymakers, researchers, environmental defenders, climate activists, human rights activists (including women’s rights activists), NGOs, businesses and the international community at large with an essential resource to understand the current state of global climate litigation, including descriptions of the key issues that courts have faced in the course of climate change cases.